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Hymettos, Attica
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (Cube of Zoroaster)
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (Cube of Zoroaster)
which would be required to live in the mountains.
This situation is somewhat reversed later in the film, when the character who said "only you city folks call it nature", discusses the insufficiency of the dialect spoken in the mountains with respect to describing emotion.
This situation is somewhat reversed later in the film, when the character who said "only you city folks call it nature", discusses the insufficiency of the dialect spoken in the mountains with respect to describing emotion.
January 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
which would be required to live in the mountains.
This situation is somewhat reversed later in the film, when the character who said "only you city folks call it nature", discusses the insufficiency of the dialect spoken in the mountains with respect to describing emotion.
This situation is somewhat reversed later in the film, when the character who said "only you city folks call it nature", discusses the insufficiency of the dialect spoken in the mountains with respect to describing emotion.
As David Kishik elaborates: "When our concepts are detached from their simple use, they transform into a kind of sacred or metaphysical entities. [...] There are no metaphysical concepts but only concepts used in a metaphysical way. The sacred is sacred only because we make it so."
January 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
As David Kishik elaborates: "When our concepts are detached from their simple use, they transform into a kind of sacred or metaphysical entities. [...] There are no metaphysical concepts but only concepts used in a metaphysical way. The sacred is sacred only because we make it so."
This conversation from "The Eight Mountains" (a beautiful film btw) calls to mind this statement from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: “What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use” (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §116).
January 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This conversation from "The Eight Mountains" (a beautiful film btw) calls to mind this statement from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: “What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use” (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §116).
I recently learned that there were stylite ascetics who inhabited a Byzantine-era? fortification atop the Corinthian columns of the Olympieion in Athens (according to local testimonies as well as accounts from Edward Dodwell and Alexander Wilbourne Weddell)
December 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I recently learned that there were stylite ascetics who inhabited a Byzantine-era? fortification atop the Corinthian columns of the Olympieion in Athens (according to local testimonies as well as accounts from Edward Dodwell and Alexander Wilbourne Weddell)
Phyrne Before the Areopagus by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1861)
December 11, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Phyrne Before the Areopagus by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1861)
Kant's marginalia in his copy of Baumgarten's Metaphysics
November 23, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Kant's marginalia in his copy of Baumgarten's Metaphysics
San Giuseppe - Anonymous, c. 1700–1799
November 18, 2024 at 12:32 PM
San Giuseppe - Anonymous, c. 1700–1799
Of the 95 lines Diogenes Laertius' doxography of Anacharsis, 7-8 are dedicated to his fear of the sea. The first reads: "Learning that the thickness of a ship was equivalent to four fingers, he said that those sailing were [only] this far away from death."
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Of the 95 lines Diogenes Laertius' doxography of Anacharsis, 7-8 are dedicated to his fear of the sea. The first reads: "Learning that the thickness of a ship was equivalent to four fingers, he said that those sailing were [only] this far away from death."
Some moments from this summer
November 17, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Some moments from this summer
Saint Sebastian (detail) – Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1623.
November 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Saint Sebastian (detail) – Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1623.