How the Christ Defined the Christian — Conciliar Post
Jesus defined Christianity as dying-to-self with Him; theology distorts it as a list of beliefs, rejects His authority and weakens Christians.| Conciliar Post
Jesus defined Christianity as dying-to-self with Him; theology distorts it as a list of beliefs, rejects His authority and weakens Christians.| Conciliar Post
A Response to Owen Anderson The post Allegory and Typology appeared first on American Reformer.| American Reformer
A few years ago I wrote about my old friend Nic Thorne’s book on Thucydides and Plato: how they both …Continue reading →| Love of All Wisdom
A conversation with Pedro Brea and Karsten Jensen. LLM generated transcript below. Matt Segall: Hey, Karsten. Pedro Brea: Hey! Karsten Jensen: Hi, Matt! Hi, Pedro! I’m so happy you both agreed to have this conversation with me, and I really look forward to it. Matt Segall: Likewise. My exposure to Martinus was through you, Karsten, and I really appreciated […]| Footnotes2Plato
Or, Doing Christian Philosophy: A Response to Calvin Goligher “We see, indeed, the world with our eyes, we tread the earth with our feet, we touch innumerable kinds of God’s works with our hands, we| American Reformer
This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The Haywire Heart, Plato's Republic, and the King James Bible| The Rational Walk
This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2025, including The Lessons of History, American Journey, the works of Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon, and more.| The Rational Walk
A constructed language or “conlang” is a language that an individual or group has deliberately created with a purpose in mind, as opposed to languages that have arisen naturally. Today, when most people today hear this term, they think immediately of languages used in works of fiction, such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s Elvish language … Continue reading "What Was the First Conlang?" The post What Was the First Conlang? appeared first on Tales of Times Forgotten.| Tales of Times Forgotten
We know that how we earn and spend wealth are significant issues. But often due to the press of life we do not give these the reflection we should. ‘Practical’ demands tend to override deeper human considerations. Our philosophical and theological traditions have much to offer here. In the Republic, while with some very problematic […]| LifeCraft
I ended up giving a brief (10 minute) impromptu talk at Edge Esmeralda today, and this is a transcript of what came out: Hey, everyone, can you hear me okay if I speak at this level? Great. So, yeah, I’m Matt Segall and I am a philosopher. I teach in this wonderful graduate program in San Francisco […]| Footnotes2Plato
Here are the highlights from the latest issue of our Regenerative Reader! Attached to the bottom of this post is a .pdf document where you can find the entire issue. Be sure to sign up for our mailing list so you will be the first to see what is coming up! Eating Up Easter: Film ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Using selections of texts from Plato’s Republic, Gorgias, Symposium, and Laws, Laurie will discuss key ideas that attracted early Christians: Plato’s idealism (doctrine of the forms), his views on justice, the role of human love, the existence of God, and the afterlife. The last half hour, at least, will be for open discussion. Each session ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Matt: Hi, Victoria! How are you doing this morning? Victoria: Good. Well, it’s evening for me here in England. Matt: Right. Well, really lovely to connect with you. Victoria: Ye…| Footnotes2Plato
Below is an audio version and edited transcript of my talk at Breaking Convention last week, hosted by the University of Exeter. Video should be available in the coming weeks. Peter Sjöstedt-…| Footnotes2Plato
Pedro Brea, Jack Bagby, and I decided to continue digging into Plotinus—specifically the Sixth Ennead—focusing on the relationship between the One and the Intellect, and between the World…| Footnotes2Plato
First there was the genetic revolution—the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg…| Discovery Institute
You can read my reflections on this dialogue here.| Footnotes2Plato
Ruth Kastner and I first met several years ago in the context of a seminar series focused on plasma physicist and philosopher Timothy Eastman’s work. Ruth also participated in the “Metaph…| Footnotes2Plato
“My Early Life” serves a key political purpose for modern democracies, recovering a vision of nobility and political greatness for young readers. At the same time, this rich text can serve as a point of departure on an even narrower path of human excellence discovered by Socrates, whose students included statesmen and poets in the ancient agora—and a young British cavalry officer in the unlikely setting of Bangalore. The post “My Early Life”: Churchill’s Recovery of Aristocratic V...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
A near verbatim transcript: Matt Segall: Hey, Tim. Timothy Jackson: Hey, Matt. How are you? Matt Segall: Hanging in there, doing all right. Yeah. Matt Segall: Nice shirt. Timoth…| Footnotes2Plato
“The idea is the whole thing. If you stay true to the idea, it tells you everything you need to Continue reading →| Blue Labyrinths
In this lecture, we explore and examine Plato’s philosophy and explain how to avoid common mistakes when reading and interpreting Plato. In this talk, we cover the theory of the forms and the…| Discourses on Minerva
Below is a ChatGPT summary of my conversation with Roman (which I’ve reviewed for accuracy). You can find the exact transcript on Substack. Roman began by sharing his thoughts on a documentar…| Footnotes2Plato
The following reflections are based on transcribed excerpts from a recent podcast that should appear at the end of the year and that I will be sure to share. Do I consider myself a Whiteheadian? On…| Footnotes2Plato
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov—one of the most exotic Russian converts to Catholicism—was marked from childhood by a strange and controversial spiritual experience: the mystical vision of the divine Sophia. With a personal revelation of such magnitude at the core of his thinking, he became one of those rare philosophers for whom philosophy is truly a “love-for-Wisdom.” (essay by Robert Lazu Kmita)| The Imaginative Conservative
Roman and Matt delved into Whitehead’s metaphysics, exploring its intersections with modern science and spiritual experience. Roman began by asking Matt about the distinction between Whitehea…| Footnotes2Plato
The Zhou aristocracy’s belief in a supreme deity or Tian (“Heaven”) was passed down and adopted by Confucian elites through the Mandate of Heaven (tianming) doctrine. However, the precise meaning and understanding of Heaven in Confucian terms is unclear. For Mencius, who talks openly and extensively about the Mandate, the rule of Heaven seems to […]| The Confucian Weekly Bulletin
Piero Di Cosimo, Incarnation of Jesus (c.1485−1505; detail) RICHARD OF ST. VICTOR discusses a mystical state of consciousness he calls alienatio mentis (alienation of the mind). [1] This is a type of ecstasy in which one loses contact with bodily senses. Typically, however, both consciousness itself and awareness of oneself remain intact. That is, it […]| Christian Platonism
The Art of Dying: Philosophy & Death virtual conference The Art of Dying: Philosophy and Death, our upcoming virtual symposium, promises an extraordinary journey into the depths of human existe…| Plato's Academy Centre
