Monday, October 20, 2014

Thursday, October 16, 2014

National Geographic's apocalypses of human social psychology

The general title of these two National Geographic series is "Apocalypse" (http://natgeotv.com/asia/apocalypse-world-war-i; http://natgeotv.com/asia/apocalypse-the-second-world-war), by which the creators mean terrible, dramatic events in human history (since not the end of the world). But what the two series really are is an apocalypse, an un-covering (Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal,’ from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover.'), a revealing of the human being, individually, socially and collectively.
These films can be viewed more usefully as lessons in realistic social psychology than as just past, if relevant, history.

Friday, October 10, 2014

meanings in the history of Greek philosophy

there is no one "answer", truth or understanding of the story of Greek philosophy; there is what and how one understands the meaning in the story.

Let there be Socrates.

perhaps Socrates' search for the permanent Good, Just, Beautiful,... was like saying: 'Let there be God, and there was God'?

Thursday, October 2, 2014

"...for they know not what they do"?

a dividing of judgements?
those who do, and those who don't...

Father, condemn them for they know what they do.