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Article Forthcoming in Explorations in Media Ecology
I’m happy to report that Explorations in Media Ecology, the journal of the Media Ecology Association, will publish my article “Media Ecology and Bios Theoretikos… 238 more words
A Philologist's Distinctions: Paul Anderson and PowerDots
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists. 1,087 more words
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Many philosophers have pointed out (Anscombe, Williams, etc.) that there’s a considerable disparity between ancient and modern works on ethics. Our modern conception of morality, as a system of obligatory interpersonal norms, is entirely foreign to ancient texts. 3,394 more words
Stoicism 5.0: The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy
Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University
From Cynicism to Stoicism
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, to paraphrase Monty Python. 2,110 more words
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)
153 more wordsThe story I am about to tell therefore begins symbolically at Ephesus, in Asia Minor, around 500 BCE, on the day when tradition reports that Heraclitus, one of the most ancient thinkers of Greece, deposited the book, probably without a title, in which he had summarized all his knowledge, in the temple of the celebrated Artemis of Ephesus.1…
