Remarks

history

  • Timeless Creations and Cultural Appropriation

    From the perspective of world history, we can distinguish between culturally contextual works, which appeal to the specific circumstances, cultural narratives, and unique characteristics of a culture at a particular moment in time without transcending it, and enduring (or non-contextual) works, which go beyond those specifics and resonate timelessly with the entirety of human existence. Continue reading

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  • A Few Thoughts on Kant and Metaphysics

    Anyone familiar with Immanuel Kant’s famous Critique of Pure Reason (1781), or at least the main argument of that work, will know that it had a cataclysmic effect on metaphysics, a discipline which harkens back to the ancient Greeks.  Kant’s argument in that work is that all knowledge can be accounted for on the basis Continue reading

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  • To Heraclitize

    “You cannot step into the same river twice (ῷ αὐτῷ ποταμῷ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι)” – Heraclitus Today’s word — to heraclitize, heraclitizing, viz., to follow or espouse the opinion(s) of Heraclitus. The concept of ‘heraclitizing’ originates from the Metaphysics of Aristotle: “For it was from this view that the most extreme of the opinions mentioned Continue reading

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