by Evan Dwan | May 8, 2020 | News |
They arrived, after barely surviving a ferocious storm at sea, at a wooded island, filled with beeches and oaks. On the shore lions and tigers and wolves prowled but when approached they rolled over and purred. Odysseus sent some men to investigate. The beasts led the...
by Evan Dwan | May 7, 2020 | News |
As a child she played with a toy chimpanzee her father gave her. Little did she know that when she grew older her life’s work would be spent playing with real chimpanzees in the wilds of Africa. Jane Goodall went into a remote jungle in Africa and followed the chimps....
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In The patterning instinct, Jeremy Lent takes an approach to history called ‘cognitive history’. This approach holds that instead of history being determined exclusively by material causes like geography, economy, technology etc. the ‘will to meaning’ plays a...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 2, 2020 | News |
Monastic readers would huddle over their parchment texts, reading aloud, immersing their whole being in the words and the text. Reading used to be understood as a remedy. According to Ivan Illich, reading brings light back into the world, by kindling the eye, and...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 2, 2020 | News |
Luc Ferry writes that the Odyssey is the first representative of an attempt at creating a cosmic wisdom, a ‘secular spirituality’ and a compelling definition of the good life. He is referred to as the ‘divine Odysseus’, the wisest of men. His quest is to attempt to...
