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The Great Peace of the Magi
November 13th, 2008 at 10:31 am » Comments (0)
Plutarch, in his treatise on Isis and Osiris, describes the great peace that the Magi foretold: But the time appointed by fate is coming, ... when the earth becoming plain and ...more »The Source
November 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm » Comments (0)
The theme, or motto, of this blog has its source in an essay of Plutarch entitled "On Listening to Lectures." Here's a translation of Plutarch's actual words: The correct analogy for ...more »Good, Evil, and Plutarch
November 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am » Comments (0)
Henry David Thoreau, an obscure 19th Century classicist and journalist who earned a reputation as a decent translator of Greek works, once reflected on the profound presence of Evil in ...more »Zarathustra the Yes Man.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:56 pm » Comments (0)
There is perhaps no message more essential to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra than the whole-hearted affirmation of life as an individual experience. I am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, ... into ...more »Killing your Buddhas
October 25th, 2008 at 10:37 pm » Comments (2)
Continuing our discussion of the correspondences between Heraclitus and the Zarathustras, we have the directive that each one find truth for oneself; that one must never follow. As the old ...more »Also Sprach Herakleitos
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm » Comments (0)
Nietzsche's choice of the Iranian (not necessarily Persian) prophet Zarathustra was far from arbitrary, and Nietzsche wanted us to know this. "I have not been asked, as I should have been ...more »Love, Sympathy, and Value
September 19th, 2008 at 3:24 pm » Comments (0)
The September 13 episode of the Philosopher's Zone podcast really struck a chord with me. I spent most of the episode mumbling non-verbal cues of non-committal acquiescence, but by the ...more »Gods of Wisdom
September 8th, 2008 at 1:19 pm » Comments (0)
The wise (sophos) is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. —Heraclitus Zarathashtra worshiped something he called "Lord Wisdom" (Mazda). He called his ...more »Haunted by Heraclitus
August 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm » Comments (0)
Heraclitus is not merely turning in his grave, he's haunting his inspirations. It appears that an image of a painting that was inspired by Heraclitus' aphorism the way up is the ...more »Ethos as Destiny
August 27th, 2008 at 7:25 am » Comments (1)
This is a continuation of our reflections on character as destiny. We left this discussion having stripped down the self to nothing but her choices, but that was not where I ...more »