Jan 30 2022 John Zerzan: Silence Caspar David Friedrich, Bohemian Landscape. Photograph: Public Domain Inviolable asylum
Jul 12 2020 Plotinus: Enneads Cesare Maccari, Study of Figure.Image: Public Domain Perfection realized
Apr 26 2020 Marsilio Ficino: Know Thyself Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Perfect Head.Photograph: Public Domain Knowledge and reverence of oneself are best of all
Jun 24 2017 Seneca: On Tranquillity of Mind Vilhelm Hammershøi, Bedroom.Photograph: [Public Domain] The Athenaeum The art of stillness
Jan 15 2017 Greg Goode: Colin Turbayne and the Myth of Metaphor Pieter Claesz, Vanitas. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons How language opens to the divine
Oct 07 2016 Michel de Montaigne: On Solitude Alphonse Mucha, Woman in the Wilderness.Image: Public Domain How seclusion from the active life is the only peaceful way to live
Jul 15 2016 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Image: Public Domain How a Roman emperor stirred the hearts and minds of his people
Jun 10 2016 Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].Photograph: Wikimedia Commons How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition
May 27 2016 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Meditations of a Solitary Walker Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Image: Public Domain The joys of the reclusive life
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