Footnotes2Plato

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Month: April 2021

  • Eins und Alles _ Goethe

    Eins und Alles _ Goethe

    My German is schrecklich, but since I couldn’t find any translations I liked, I spent the afternoon struggling with Goethe’s poem “Eins und Alles” (“One and All”), with a dictionary and several other translations in tow. What follows is my best attempt to render this Englishly. I am convinced that translation is impossible, but I…

  • A Drunk History of Time: The Einstein, Bergson, Whitehead Debates

    Is the flow of time a “stubbornly persistent illusion,” a mere psychological mirage, as Albert Einstein held? Or is it the very essence of all psychical life and material things alike, as Henri Bergson argued? Might there be an equally scientific rendering of relativity that does not force us to deny our lived experience, as…

  • Science and the Modern World (dialogue with Sebastjan Vörös)

    Seb and I discussed the history and contemporary status of the natural sciences and their relationship to philosophy and metaphysics.