Great ideas don’t just come in books, they come on pages. Pages that we don’t just turn, but re-turn to often. A well-worn book is, as it were, a reflection of the great ideas contained on the pages therein.
The Milesians were the first in ancient Greece to search for an arche, or first principle as the primary substance of the visible world. They distinguish themselves by surpassing the tradition of myth, looking behind the diversity of nature, and even approaching the threshold of being. Although very few fragments of their thinking remain, the Milesians are the subject of several contemporary accounts including the philosophies of Nietzsche and Heidegger (more)
Transcendentalese is the common yet uncommon language of the philosophical attitude. In every age there is recurring terminology that forms a basis for philosophical discourse. Some are ordinary words troped of their spatio-temporal reference, applied to the world or human condition as such. Others emerge as neologisms where ordinary language falls short, often better left untranslated. Together these constitute a vocabulary that aims to articulate the whole of reality (more)
