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"I suppose you're right," Socrates said. "Of course I'm right," the priestess Diotima said. (Symp. 206e)

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"Of course I'm right," the priestess Diotima said. 

(Symp. 206e)

Among the Gymnosophists of India, it is related...that the Buddha, prince of their doctrine, was born from the side of a virgin. Apud Gymnosophistas Indiae...traditur, quod Buddam principem dogmatis eorum, e latere suo virgo generarit. (Jerome, Adv. Jov. I.42)


It is the strongest possible indictment of postmedieval Western philosophy that a figure of so dim and contracted a mind as Descartes is not only taken seriously but accorded such central significance.


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A “hypostasis” is the plane where the referents of a principle subsists. The “hypostasis” of Intellect is all things qua intellect. The “hypostasis” of “The One” is all things/each thing qua unity/individual. It is not an “entity” over/against them, hence “it is some one thing”


'And if Nature (φύσις), when it is measured, is subject to the same processes as is the agent that measures it, then there is nothing in Nature that has permanence or even existence' Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 393A

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Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 393A

Since this database is not as well-known as it should be: remember to check out the Corpus Corporum. It's a digital repository of Latin texts from antiquity to the medieval era, with lemmatised searching. mlat.uzh.ch

pymandersghost's tweet image. Since this database is not as well-known as it should be: remember to check out the Corpus Corporum. It's a digital repository of Latin texts from antiquity to the medieval era, with lemmatised searching. mlat.uzh.ch

Kunstprosa is such an incredible word, really picks out something

Do you want to escape modernity? Learn how to write in Greek and Latin!

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Is Paul Kingsnorth worth reading?


Watching something while eating is a direct continuation (if still a degradation) of the more ancient practice of eating while something is being read aloud.


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