φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606) In our last post we discussed the temptation and the fall from paradise. Today I want to look at the sins of Adam and Eve from a slightly different angle. Whether if it is the totalitarian kallipolis which…
As early back as 380 BC, in his Republic, Plato is interested in the role of perception on reality. In his famous allegory of the cave he illustrates the primacy of perception over unmediated reality with prisoners who perceive shadows on a wall as reality unaware of the true forms casting them. The metaphor underscores how…