“You must study philosophy, even when you have no more money than to buy a lamp and oil, and even when you have no other time than from midnight to the crack of dawn.” – Friedrich Hölderlin, Age 25
Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski - Jacek Malczewski In the Winter of my seventeenth year, I penned the following entry. Twas’ for me the titanic collision between my vigorous struggles to maintain (what I realized much later to be) Jansenist Christianity, and the undeniable deluge of my first love— “February 19 Why am I …
The Sacred Wood Cherished by the Arts and the Muses - Chavannes Not too long ago, under the context of a discussion surrounding James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience, my ears perked up to the momentous event of a question—“What’s the point of religion if I’m satisfied with my life without it?” Unfortunately, this is …
Let the Day Perish Wherein I Was Born (Job) - William Blake "‘And throughout all Eternity I forgive you, you forgive me. As our dear Redeemer said: This the Wine, and this the Bread.” An Invitation to do Nothing What are you doing & why? Thinking about why I do what I do, my memories …
Levitan - Осенний солнечный день A Philosophical Primer for those who claim to be religious. As Kierkegaard titled one of his works— Judge for Yourselves! Here are seven pages1 of something that I didn’t intend to write today, something which rather just manifested itself out of what has so laid fascination upon me for the …
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Carl Jung - Quadrated Circle in the Sky In the famous Grand Inquisitor scene from Dostoevsky’s opus, The Brothers Karamazov, we hear the inquisitor speaking of the “universal and everlasting craving of humanity– to find someone to worship”. And further, “Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go …
Levitan - Before the Storm These three essays may be read standalone, yet read together follow an emerging line of thought regarding, what I believe to be, the most significant topics of human existence. In following the inquiry at hand, we see presented the illustrious interweaved story of the history of religion and philosophy, two …
It is far easier to write a Tragedy than a Comedy. With Tragedy being such a formative and relatable element of our human experience, there’s no wonder why it’s so smitten with as a literary and theatrical theme. Yet I wish to ask more deeply, why would anyone pay money to be confronted with a …
“It is the nature of humanity to press onward to agreement with others; human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds. The anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level.” - G.W.F. Hegel I only wanted Truth to appear; …
For Brian This painting I dedicate to the only virtue not encompassed in the classical world, yet one used by Christ to exemplify the last (and perhaps greatest) virtue: humility. "Whoever humbles himself like [a] child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." - To our spiritual role models. John Green captures such …
Originally written January of 2023 “The eye with which I see God is the eye with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one seeing, and one knowing, and one love.” The following is a brief survey of Meister Eckhart I wrote for an individual study comparing Hegel & …
Threshing Floor 