Writing on philosophy, art, nature, and the examined life, from the tutors and students of the School.
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Philosophy
Written by Pinar Karaman Kaan There is no written recorded information about Yunus Emre’s life and only his poems survive but it is generally agreed that he lived between 1240 and 1320. He was born in Sarikoy, a village by the Sakarya River, Anatolia, now modern-day Turkey. He lost his father at an
The School
Written by John Hay, a student in attendance of the weekend. The focus of the retreat was the Gayatri mantra. Twenty-two of us met together at Waterperry house on the weekend of the 24 November 2023, near Oxfordshire under the guidance of Warwick and Elena Jessup.
Philosophy And Psychology
Ubuntu is an African name for a universal concept. The term contains a timeless wisdom. The Zulu description is - umuntu ngamuntu ngabantu which translates variously as:“A person is a person through persons.” “Persons depend upon persons to be persons” “I am because you are, you are because we are.
Essay
An excerpt from; Shakespeare - A Renaissance Perennial By Jeremy Nieboer This article consists of a consideration of the treatise by Martin Lings entitled ‘The Secret of Shakespeare’ first published in part in 1965 in ‘Tomorrow’ and then in its full version as an essay in[1]’ 2005.
Philosophy And Psychology
The recently completed mural at the School’s premises at Mandeville Place.
“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars.” Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine nun canonized in 2010, was an abbess, a leading scholar, theologian, visionary, musician, linguist, artist and scie
Philosophy And Psychology
Abraham Maslow was born in 1908 and died in 1970. His parents were Jewish migrants who fled from persecution from what is now known as Ukraine and settled in Brooklyn, U.S. (Boeree, 2007). He was persecuted by anti-Semitic gangs, which lead him to envision an idealistic world which he hoped could be
To be a flute-maker is to be an endangered species. Flute-makers in Scotland go back to the 17thcentury but now there is only one left. George’s flutes are in demand across the world so what makes them so special? He is an expert in woodwork, a silversmith and also makes his own tools. In the last 4
Lectures
A talk by Mr Donald Lambie given at the School of Philosophy, SE London branch on 20 February 2023 Very good to be with you ladies and gentlemen and I am delighted that we’ve got people also from St Alban’s and Kent and Kingston, Sussex; so welcome. If you haven’t been here before this is Athene Hou
Africana Philosophy Research Group
“Toussaint alone among the black leaders, with freedom for all in mind, was in the early months of 1792 organising out of the thousands of ignorant and untrained blacks an army capable of fighting European troops.” CLR James C. L. R. James’s book, The Black Jacobins written in 1938 celebrates the l
There’s something very special about hearing poetry, not reading it. Hearing it in the presence of others. When you create the conditions to drink in the words, you’re transported to another world. We listened with our minds and even more, with our hearts. On Saturday 18th June, the School of Philo
Author: Arthur Farndell Plato’s Republic contains the declaration by Socrates to the effect that States will have no rest from their troubles until philosophers are kings or rulers have the spirit and power of philosophy. Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), whose 12 volumes of letters a team in the School h
