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The Presocratic Discovery of Logos Part II of this essay goes beyond the quantitative observation that Presocratic Greece on its own produced more original thinkers… Read More »The Axial Age and the European Discovery of Logos: Part II
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The Philosophers of the “Axial Age”: Socrates, Confucius, Buddha and Zarathustra From the nineteenth century through the 1960s and 70s, World History books did recognize… Read More »Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, and a Common History for Humanity
The Basic Flaw in Taylor’s Argument Charles Taylor, viewed by some as the greatest Canadian thinker of the post WW II era, is best known… Read More »Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognizing Minorities while Suppressing Eurocanadians
Martha Nussbaum — Ecstatic with Herself The world of academia is full of hyper inflated academics with multiple titles, prizes, honors, publications, grants and “original”… Read More »Martha Nussbaum: Premier Citizen of the World
The claim that the Roman empire was a legally sanctioned multiracial state is another common trope used by cultural Marxists to create an image of… Read More »Was Roman Citizenship Based on Laws for “all of Humanity”?
The invention of a civic identity was the first magisterial contribution of the Greeks to Western civilization without which their other accomplishments would have been… Read More »Acclaiming the Greek Invention of a Civic Identity