classics digests, reflections and reviews
About a month ago I posted a video with the title “Beauty and the Ontological Argument”, without an accompanying article. At the time, I was a little exhausted after a long week at work, and beauty is a very difficult, if not impossible, subject to write, not to mention I’m not good at words to begin with, but I’ll try to complete what I started. A Glimpse of the Transcendent […]
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Socrates The first who directed the entire effort of philosophy to ethics, all who went before him having expended their greatest efforts in the investigation of nature. However, it cannot be certainly discovered whether Socrates did this because he was wearied of obscure and uncertain things, and so wished to direct his mind to the discovery of something manifest and certain, which was necessary in order to the obtaining of […]
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Descartes’ Wax: Why the Mind is Distinct From the Body Descartes was meditating in his chair by the fire with a piece of wax in his hand. He had formed a notion that wax was something with a fixed shape, size, color and smell, when the wax began melting due to the heat, and changed into an indistinct mass. It became obvious that his previous notion was erroneous (not only […]
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