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By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Why does philosophy appear so difficult? I think one of the biggest reasons is that it’s not written for clarity. Either the author is adopting an outdated style or he’s intentionally complicating a relatively simple concept because people generally dismiss simple concepts. Apparently many philosophers had the feeling, be it conscious [...]
The tauroctony – Mithras slays the bull of the unconscious while looking towards Sol Invictus. By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Carl Gustav Jung drove home to us the reality that myth in a collective sense, and dreams in an individual sense, are reflections of the unconscious. He stated plainly that dreams, along with other myths [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi (2010) Ritual has existed for as long as humanity has been up to its usual business of mastering self and environment. At the beginning of era of modernity, and with the spread of scientific thinking, myth, ritual and metaphysics were jettisoned, with intellectuals declaring that humanity had outgrown its primitive tools that “explained” [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi “The genius which runs into madness is no longer genius.” -Otto Weininger One of the lasting contributions of evolutionary psychology to our understanding of human nature is undoubtedly a list of human universals composed by Donald Brown. The list runs into the hunderds and includes: Actions under self-control distinguished from those not under [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra (or Thus spake Zarathustra according to the older, and more arcane sounding, title) is an ocean of deep thoughts and rare feelings. Pictorially, it is a high mountain, with a chilly, rarified atmosphere, as Nietzsche himself intimated: “the air of my writings knows that it is an air of the heights, a [...]
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