Leaping In, Leaping Ahead
Heidegger on Two Ways of Helping
Doing the thing for someone, or freeing them for their own care. Watch both kinds of help side by side, from Being and Time §26, with an eye on AI and what it leaves for the human.
Watch the two ways
Mystical Traditions
Seven Paths Compared Across Ten Dimensions
Kabbalah, Sufism, Hesychasm, Zen, Vedanta, Christian mysticism, and Heidegger's Gelassenheit, compared on the same ten dimensions.
Compare Traditions
Heidegger's Four Epochs of Being
The History of Being from Aletheia to Gestell
Heidegger's history of Being in four epochs, from the Greek experience of unconcealment to modern enframing, and what he thought each age forgot.
Trace the Epochs
Strauss's Three Waves of Modernity
How Political Philosophy Lost Its Footing
Strauss's account of modernity in three waves, led by Machiavelli, Rousseau, and Nietzsche, each breaking further from classical political philosophy.
Follow the Waves
Schmitt's Concept of the Political
The Friend-Enemy Distinction and Sovereign Exception
Schmitt's claims that the political rests on the distinction between friend and enemy, and that the sovereign is whoever decides on the exception, laid out as a map of his main ideas.
Enter the Political
Plato's Divided Line
One Triangle, Four Ways of Knowing
Find the original that casts a shadow, use a drawing in a geometric proof, and ask what grounds the proof's starting points. A companion to the Cave, based on the lectures.
Explore the Divided Line
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
The Slave Revolt and the Inversion of Values
Nietzsche's account of good and evil, master and slave morality, ressentiment, and bad conscience, including his claim that the weak won by calling their weakness virtue.
Unmask the Values
Spengler's Culture Morphology
Six Civilizations and Their Seasons
Spengler held that every culture has a soul and passes through spring, summer, autumn, and winter. His theory is applied here to six cultures.
Read the Seasons
Voegelin's Order of History
From Compact Consciousness to the Gnostic Revolt
Voegelin on the differentiation of consciousness, the leap in being, and the modern gnostic hope of building heaven on earth, which he called immanentizing the eschaton.
Explore the Order