January 2012
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Words of the Day
(all via Wikipedia)
Metaxy: is defined in Plato’s Symposium via the character of the priestess Diotima as the “in-between” or “middle ground”. Other philosophers like political philosopher Eric Voegelin used the term to mean the permanent place where man is in-between two poles of existence. Such as the infinite (Apeiron) and the finite (the divine mind or Nous)...
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“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the...”
– Robert Venturi, quoting T.S. Eliot, Contradiction and Complexity 