Tag: plato
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Welt und Zeit—Acumen & Evil, 04:48—1. March 2025
Acumen, that razor-edged acuity of mind, occupies a paradoxical space at the intersection of knowledge and morality. It denotes a keen, incisive intelligence—a capacity to discern subtleties and penetrate complexities—and yet this very sharpness can cut either way. We often celebrate acumen as a virtue of the intellect, but the ontological question arises: what is…
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Whispered Legacies: Unraveling Rumors, Subjectivity, and Political Enigma in Lacanian Thought
Mladen Dolar is often seen as a towering figure in contemporary psychoanalytic philosophy, whose intellectual trajectory merges Lacanian thought with critical reflections on politics and cultural dynamics. His journey, marked by formative years in Paris studying with Lacan, is deeply embedded in the historical and political ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s—a period…
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Nietzsche and the Shadow of God
Nietzsche and the Shadow of God is a work that ventures into the fraught terrain where Nietzsche’s philosophy confronts the two-thousand-year-old religious heritage of the West. Didier Franck’s study, here introduced for the first time to English-speaking audiences through a careful and readable translation by Bettina Bergo and Philippe Farah, does not aim at either…
Simon Gros 