Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented-but human nature is constant across time and space. The dynamics of warfare in the present age still remain comprehensible to us through careful study of the past. Though many have called the War on Terror unprecedented, its contours would have been quite familiar to Themistocles of Athens or William Tecumseh Sherman.
Books by Victor Davis Hanson:
The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern: https://amzn.to/2CGwzOG
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War: https://amzn.to/2CCuumO
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power: https://amzn.to/2D6PqDe
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In 1950, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Jung set up a stone cube on the lakeshore, just west of the Bollingen Tower, inscribing it on three sides. One side contains a quote taken from the Rosarium philosophorum:
Hic lapis exilis extat, pretio quoque vilis, spernitur a stultis, amatur plus ab edoctis. (Here stands the mean, uncomely stone, 'Tis very cheap in price! The more it is despised by fools, The more loved by the wise.)
A dedication is also inscribed on this side of the stone:
IN MEMORIAM NAT[ivitatis] S[uae] DIEI LXXV C G JUNG EX GRAT[itudine] FEC[it] ET POS[uit] A[nn]O MCML (In memory of his 75th birthday, C.G. Jung out of gratitude made and set it up in the year 1950.)
The second side of the cube depicts Jung's Telesphoros figure, bearing a lantern and wearing a hooded cape. It is surrounded by a Greek inscription:
«Ὁ Αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεττεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη» · Τελεσφόρος διελαύνων τοὺς σκοτεινοὺς τοῦ κόσμου τόπους, καὶ ὡς ἀστὴρ ἀναλάμπων ἐκ τοῦ βάθους, ὁδηγεῖ «παρ' Ἠελίοιο πύλας καὶ δῆμον ὀνείρων».
"Time is a child — playing like a child — playing a board game — the kingdom of the child. This is Telesphoros, who roams through the dark regions of this cosmos and glows like a star out of the depths. He points the way to the gates of the sun and to the land of dreams."
"Time is a child at play, gambling; a child's is the kingship" is a fragment attributed to Heraclitus.
"He points the way to the gates of the sun and to the land of dreams" is a quote from the Odyssey (Book 24, Verse 12). It refers to Hermes the psychopomp, who leads away the spirits of the slain suitors.
The second side also contains a four-part mandala of alchemical significance. The top quarter of the mandala is dedicated to Saturn, the bottom quarter to Mars, the left quarter to Sol-Jupiter [male], and the right quarter to Luna-Venus [female].
The third side of the cube is the side that faces the lake. It bears a Latin inscription of sayings which, Jung says, "are more or less quotations from alchemy."
The inscription reads:
I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of time.
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One of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, Being and Time is both a systematization of the existential insights of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and a radicalization of Husserl’s phenomenological account of intentionality. What results is an original interpretation of being-in-the-world that describes skill in a way that undermines the subject/object distinction, and, in so doing, offers a convincing account of the nature and limitations of philosophical and scientific theory. This account has important implications for all those disciplines that study human beings.
Lecture 1-8: https://youtu.be/QBMySi3veVs
Lecture 9: 00:00
Lecture 10: 01:19:29
Lecture 11: 02:38:57
Lecture 12: 03:58:13
Lecture 13: 05:16:00
Lecture 14: 06:26:32
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Pharmacophilia or The Natural Paradises by Jonathan Ott: https://amzn.to/2LCwstf
Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion by Jonathan Ott: https://amzn.to/2Ef5aTN
Ayahuasca Analogues Pangean Entheogens by Jonathan Ott: https://amzn.to/2LQLDPJ
Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History by Jonathan Ott: https://amzn.to/2LQ7w1L
Shamanic Snuffs or Enthogenic Errhines by Jonathan Ott: https://amzn.to/2Vx84sO
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Science Politics & Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin: https://amzn.to/2Is36ZS
The New Science of Politics: An Introduction by Eric Voegelin: https://amzn.to/2MxUENT
Modernity Without Restraint by Eric Voegelin: https://amzn.to/30y0Et6
The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousnes: https://amzn.to/2VSxwOr
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