The coming of the Cosmos into being is not only a present-day scientific concern, but also a recurring object of thought. From the Babylonian Enuma Elish and numerous indigenous cosmogonies to the Big Bang theory in contemporary physics and Félix Guattari’s concept of Chamosmosis – to only mention a few examples – it has never…
Category: Greece
Herákleitos (Heraclitus) // Carlos
Heraclitus is the first philosopher from whom we have a large collection of fragments, all likely pertaining to a book about which, nevertheless, we ignore many things(*). We have encountered him twice so far: First, when examining life’s autopoiesis (**). Secondly, when analysing the Greek gods in poetical perspective and the relation between the ephemeral…
Of Poetry, Gods, Heroes & Mortal Things // Carlos
The Greek gods are a matter of poetry. First, we know of them through the verses of various Ancient Greek poets; eventually poet-philosophers, but poets in any event. Secondly, their very presence – ultimately, their very being – makes sense in poetic terms alone. In other words: talking of the gods meant in Ancient Greece…
On Pasolini’s Medea // Carlos
There are – among others, to be sure – three fascinating things in Pasolini’s Medea, which I recommend you to watch here before reading this post. First, a necessary distinction between meaning and sense. Inevitably, one wanders about the specific meaning of certain issues: which are the phases of the human sacrifice offered in Colchis,…
Tragedy, Care, and the Good: A Post-Conventional Re-assessment of Plato // S&C
In Book VI of one of his most famous yet often misinterpreted dialogues, The Republic, Plato invites us to think on the conditions of possibility of living together. The expression “living together” is ours. Plato’s own is politike dynamis, which co-implies and thereby refers to three correlative things: the capacity of being together, the knowledge…
Plato, Author of a Tukano Myth // Carlos
Is writing so very useful? A Tukano myth tells that Yepa [Huake, the demiurge] said to Yupuri Bauro, the chief of the Tukano: “In this world, you will have several riches: ritual ceremonies, feathers, arrows, blowguns, benches… Your riches will remain in your homes, the homes of the Tukano – it is there that your…