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Newman and Socrates
The links between ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity are numerous. The most famous of the Greek precepts: Gnothi Seauton, "Know thyself," inscribed at Delphi, retains a certain mystery. Another part of the phrase has remained with us: "But not too much"... Know thyself... But not too much! Plato leads Socrates to reflect on the Delphic formula in Continue reading
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The virtues of boredom
In a small, acidic book (De la France, translated by Alain Paruit, L'Herne), Emil Cioran gave an answer to the French malaise. He explained how much he cared about boredom, but he distinguished two kinds of boredom: the one that opens "its doors to infinity," "as an extension into the spiritual of an immanent void of being," and the one that Continue reading