by Friederich Engels. When we consider and reflect upon Nature at large or the history of mankind or our own intellectual activity at first we see the picture of an endless entanglement of relations and reactions, permutations and combinations, in which nothing remains what, where, and as it was, but everything moves, changes, comes into […]

Plato famously proposed that there are two distinct forms of Aphrodite, each representing a different kind of love:

Parmenides likely lived between circa 515 BCE and 450 BCE, with his intellectual prime around 475 BCE. He was born in Elea, a Greek colony in southern Italy, and is considered the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, which emphasized the unity and unchanging nature of being.

by Iain McGilchrist 2021 The Matter with Things explores the radically different ways in which the two hemispheres of the brain apprehend reality, and the many cognitive and worldly implications of this. The book “is an attempt to convey a way of looking at the world quite different from the one that has largely dominated […]

An edition of the fragments with translation and commentary by CHARLES H. KAHN 1979

By Robert Briffault, 1931 Intro by Bertrand Russell.