Essence @IamOshokai

Nothing. Joined December 2021

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Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg

4 days ago

I've posted a few times about political novels, and those threads always receive the most questions. What are politics exactly, and why are people so afraid of them? So! With the final hours of Labor Day left, I thought to write a small thread about politics in fiction.

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« 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 » @_bonaventurian

4 days ago

The first video on St. Bonaventure is up on my channel. An introduction to his life and work, which will serve as the first in a series where we walk through his Commentary on the Sentences. Go take a peek: youtu.be/LPBKXHvp8eY

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Essence @IamOshokai

a week ago

DBH talks about this.

Byronic Heroine @byronicgirl

a week ago

DBH talks about this. https://t.co/e0KAdJfdyt

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abiodun @abiodun

a week ago

That is why the question “Life?” can only be answered: Life is life. Life’s meaning or justification doesn’t lie outside of it but within its SHEER facticity. That’s why the only valid answer, IMO, are the ones given my the mystics. Meister Eckhart:

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milton @miltonappl3

11 months ago

If anyone wants to learn enough to dunk on fashy math autoidolators, I suggest: Galileo "two new sciences", Hardy's "a mathematicians apology", Leibniz's "intro in reflections on true metaphysics", newton's "axioms" in "principia Mathematica", poincare's "science and hypothesis…

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Hyperion @Ortgeist

3 weeks ago

@husafell_stone True. Its an apt comparison because I think Nietzsche is the most "musical" philosopher. Not simply in prose, but in his rapturous feeling and intuitions. I was just having a moment of passion after rereading Zarathustra "Spirit of Gravity". There are so many lines in Nietzsche…

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Áyòmídé George (Arc.) @vangeorgh

3 weeks ago

Pre-colonial African Architecture generally promoted communal living - large compounds with open courtyards, where families came together in the evening to tell tales by moonlight and whatnot. Must’ve been nice..

Emeka Mba @emekamba

3 weeks ago

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Bulkington @BulkingtonBooks

3 months ago

@hope_pead no I don't know the difference between Corneille and Lemaitre, no I don't know the distinctions between the various hohenstaufen, no I don't know the subtle policy differences between Mazarin and Richelieu, no I don't know any of Addisons poems, no I don't know any of the…

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Daniel Goodman @d_a_goodman

a month ago

What’s the best obscure book(s) you’ve ever read that more people should know about?

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Isaac the Sacrificial @Sacrifice_Isaac

4 months ago

- "Vekhi: Landmarks" (a journal that Berdyaev, Semyon Frank, and Bulgakov wrote essays for). - Semyon Frank's "The Unknowable," "the Object of Knowledge," "Man's Soul," "God with Us," "Reality and Man," "the Light Shineth in Darkness," and "The Meaning of Life." 1/10

nikki୨୧ @friedrichdior

4 months ago

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SAVX! @donlysav

5 months ago

Producers I’m done with my HEIS inspired sample pack Those down send mail🙏

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D.S. 🐦‍🔥 @heaveninterface

4 months ago

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FischerKing @FischerKing64

6 months ago

Personal favorite section of Beethoven 5 is the coda to the opening sonata form movement. The concluding music that takes the ‘fate motive’ and gives you one last electric shock. Maybe having such things in my head is why I’ve never used cocaine.

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Athenian Stranger @Athens_Stranger

6 months ago

I’ll discuss the depths of Nietzsche’s philosophy from a few observations about his text “Beyond Good & Evil” in relationship to Machiavelli I’ll show how Nietzsche understands eros in the Platonic and Christian sense, and offers a new philosophy of eros

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Montana Classical College @MTClassical

4 months ago

I recently had a really illuminating conversation with my friends @byronicgirl and @engeignos about Moby-Dick. Since X has nuked most of my recent spaces, you can find the full audio below.