Plato’s Republic: What is it’s True Viability? Pro and Con
A common ingredient in murder mysteries is the search for a motive. Sometimes, where a motive appears strong enough, assumptions are made as to the...
A common ingredient in murder mysteries is the search for a motive. Sometimes, where a motive appears strong enough, assumptions are made as to the...
The following is a series of reflections on Stephen F. Cohen’s book, “Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution,” pages 3-12. The topic of social or political...
Freud’s introduction of the idea of a “death instinct” into psychoanalysis occured as a relatively late development. Prior to its introduction, the pleasure principle, coupled...
Aristotle’s phrase to ti ên einai is generally understood as a formula for expressing the notion of “essence.” But the word “essence” glosses over the difficulty of adequately capturing...
Despite the appeal of the power of collective action, individuals should sacrifice their happiness and their lives for the good of the state in exceptional cases, not as a way of life. The good of “the state” should become the foremost consideration in times when collective action is needed, but otherwise, individual liberty, for better of worse, ought to be our guiding light in the interest of the development of human potential and its fulfillment.
(Continued from the City of Pigs discussion) Once we move beyond the dialogue about the two cities (moderate and luxurious) in book 2, we immediately...
Migrated from my prior site “Philosophia” with some editing and additions The City of Pigs Plato’s “City of Pigs,” which appears in Republic II (369a et...
R.D. Laing and Primary Ontological Insecurity R.D. Laing’s 3 Forms of Anxiety Anxiety has been described as an effect of our engagement with technology, but...
The terms “physis” and “nomos” or “nature” and “law” or “custom” respectively, have had a very significant history when applied to ways of thinking about...
Assagioli and Self-Realization Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis, published in 1965, takes into account a wide range of theories that developed in the wake of Freudian psychoanalysis...