The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. –A.N. Whitehead– Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, Gifford Lectures 1927-28, New York: The Free Press, 1973. Internet Archive, accessed… Read More ›
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. So … what did you do?
So … what did you do? I broke the Law of the Excluded Middle.
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. And from this, an entire political theory.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Chapter XIII, 3. (p 122)
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. As Not To Be Weary of It. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, pp 128-129
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. “The universities of the West, the lights that illumined the (so-called) Dark Ages.”(Hugh Graham)
It is for us as it was for the Irish Monks of the early medieval period, to carry the embers is to risk burning one’s hands. —Pam, 2021 *Pencil and pencil crayon drawing. For a quick overview of the contribution… Read More ›
“That They Themselves Are Beasts”
18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing… Read More ›
Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Plague-Spreader. (scroll down)
When the Bubonic Plague rekindled in 16th and 17th century Europe, some thought the illness was spread by diabolic agents who captured its essence in an ointment and then smeared the greasy substance on walls, people, and all kinds of… Read More ›
Thoughtlets. xxxiii.
Don’t be deterred from searching a well-trodden path for novel things. Hard packed ground can conceal many treasures.
