I saw Heidegger then as one of many thinkers who believe humanity took a wrong turn of thought or action that distorted its true nature. Sci...

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in...

Prometheus bound, Laconian black-figure amphoriskos C6th B.C., Vatican City Museums PROMETHEUS was the  Titan god  of forethought and cr...

"Fall" occurs 64 times in Paradise Lost. "Wonder" is found 21 times. You can search these and other words, and immediate...

Excerpt from a longer, fascinating interview here : Ms. Tippett:  … and you end up with all these puzzles or mysteries that feel to me that ...

But  wherfore  all night long shine these, for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes? Eve's question leads to a pa...

now   glow'd   the Firmament With living   Saphirs :   Hesperus   that led  [ 605 ] The   starrie   Host, rode brightest, till the Moo...

From the Hartford Courant : It took John Basinger eight years to memorize  John Milton 's 17th-century epic poem "Paradise Lost....

Apropos the deep association of silliness and philosophy, Mussy points us to this essay by Simon Critchley . A snippet: "What is ...

Here's a film about Jorge Luis Borges, "who longed for oblivion, and who believed happiness existed somewhere between the pages of...

As we found yesterday with regard to I Corinthians 11 , it's less easy to "follow" Paul, to read him, than it first might seem...

After situating mankind vis a vis the other living creatures,  Paradise Lost turns to the relation of the sexes in  IV.300 ff : Not equal, ...