The Duality of Time in Eastern and Western Philosophy

Time as Kairos What is time? There are found in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) there at least two meanings Continue reading →

Platonic Friendship in the Epistles

1. Introduction: Plato’s Philosophy of Friendship The archetype of friendship is an underlying element of much of the Platonic corpus. Continue reading →

Art, Temporality and “Motions of the Mind”

Grossman and the Greeks  “’Everything flows, everything changes,’ said the Greek. But this is not evident from the little mounds Continue reading →

Meta-Relativism 2: Asia’s Ancient Thinkers

In part 1, I dealt with relativism, agnosticism, and what I call meta-relativism, concerning thinkers mainly in ancient Greece and Continue reading →

Meta-Relativism 1: When East Meets West

Talking of relativism, one of the most famous ― or infamous ― philosophers we may immediately think of is Protagoras, Continue reading →