interview by Johnathan Bi. We see one of the issues that he has with Christianity is that it makes men effeminate. What is the issue he has with effeminacy? Effeminacy just means you haven’t the power to use force to get your way. And so there’s something womanly about Christianity. Transcript 0. Introduction Modernity: Start […]

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 Diarmaid MacCulloch. Much was now purged from Judaic religion that had once been acceptable, even in the Jerusalem Temple: notably Asherah, God’s long-standing wife, now recast as one of the seductresses who had turned the people of God from the right path. She was the most prominent victim of Jerusalem’s theological spring clean, which […]

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 […]

Plato lent his name to Platonic love but a new book reveals that the ancient Greek philosopher never advocated love without sex. University of Manchester science historian Dr Jay Kennedy, who hit the headlines last year after revealing he had cracked the code in the great thinker’s writings, has now published a decoder’s manual that […]

by HUNTER ELLIS In the end of the fourth book of Plato’s Republic, Socrates completes the task that Glaucon had given him at the beginning of Book II. He defines justice by examining an Ideal State, and shows that a well-ordered state, like a well-ordered soul, is preferable to one in disarray. He defines the […]

by Karen Armstrong. One of the consequences, [of our scientific culture] however, is that we have, as it were, edited out the sense of the ‘spiritual’ or the ‘holy’ which pervades the lives of people in more traditional societies at every level and which was once an essential component of our human experience of the […]

by Riane Eisler. “a woman who behaves as a sexually and economically free person is a threat to the entire social and economic fabric of a rigidly male-dominated society.”

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

by Geoffrey May, 1930 It is this supposed weakening effect of sexual relations — and its complement, the belief that male semen is a source of strength-that have led many and divers tribes to enjoin continence on warriors and hunters. Activities which demand strength and fortitude demand, of necessity, chastity.