Footnotes2Plato

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

Tag: Georges Bataille

  • What is the grass?: Response to Arthur Haswell’s Pan-Pathism

    When I turn away from world-weariness, the child in me finds room to wonder,  What is the grass? Is it the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven? Is it a scented gift designedly dropped by God?  Or, is it the beautiful uncut hair of graves? Walt Whitman was a cosmic optimist, but he was not…

  • Remembering Creation: Towards a Christian Ecosophy

    “The Lord was born with me [Wisdom] at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth…Then I was beside Him, as a master artist, and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in the world,…