Category : Nature
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The Deceptive Familiarity of Homer and Hesiod’s World
The ancient Greek world feels familiar: Homer’s epics, the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, or the emergence of democracy and philosophy occupy a prominent place in Western culture and the arts, as well as in accounts of Western history. Yet this familiarity is deceptive. Western thought has inherited important concepts and practices from Greece, but that…
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Progress and Limits of Freedom of Thought in Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century
Since the 19th century, Western intellectuals have studied the development of individualization, as opposed to the primacy of society over the individuals who compose it. Probably, the idealizations of the individual as well as the political tensions related to socialism and conservatism have contributed to favouring this angle of analysis. Here, we will focus on…