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: Israel

  • William Irwin Thompson’s Thoughts on Evil

    I don’t think the copyright gods would frown on me reposting the late Bill Thompson’s blog reply to me June 11, 2013. It is available here on the Way Back Machine. He was responding to a philosophical memoir about my encounter with evil in Israel that I’d titled “Thinking the Holocaust With Schelling.” THOUGHTS ON…

  • Thinking the Holocaust with Schelling…

    A few days ago, I decided to re-read Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). It’s a reasonably short text of about 75 pages, so I’ve read it 3 or 4 times in the past year. The text’s key conceptual innovations regarding the essence of freedom (which Schelling defines as the scission…