My current course in Introduction to Philosophy: Reading schedule, readings, and assignments. If you are not one of my students, you are still welcome to read along with us.
Tag: Heraclitus
Greek Natural Philosophy
The first edition of the text on Presocratic philosophy which I co-authored with J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren is now available for adoption
What appears tends to disappear
Φύσις δε… kαθ’ Ηραkλειτον… kρύπτεσθαι φιλεΐ Phúsis de… kath’ Erakleiton… krúptesthai phileî (Qtd in Themistius, Orations 5.69b, DK B123) The story I am about to
The idea of God
Intro to Philosophy on MWF @ 1:00pm. I asked the youth to read chapter 4 of Way to Wisdom–“The Idea of God.” Mostly I spent time
Always this Struggle
always this struggle backward and down forward and up yesterday I went down to Piraeus with Socrates and Glaucon today I am grappling uphill with
Many Rivers, One Foot, No Certainty
“One can, therefore, step twice, and even innumerable times, into the same river, if the river is located by its slope, its banks, its direction,
