Ecstasis & Catharsis: The Makers of Meaning
The Ancient Greek terms that point the two ways to transformation
Philosophy is born of the marriage of two Greek words, philos- and sophia. Philos is one of Ancient Greek’s many words for love, while sophia is the Greek word for wisdom. And so at its root, philosophy was originally (and for some of us — perennially) about the love of wisdom. In his work Recapture…
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