Ressentiment is not a psychology. It is a composition of time. We have yet to come to terms with its movements.

A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
Practices of Time in the New Testament
Chronology
A running list of posts

Ressentiment Unbound
Nietzsche treated ressentiment as a consolation for a desire for vengeance that is too weak to act. But what happens when it finds itself in power? In this essay, I explore the consequences of empowered ressentiment on the woke left.

Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass
Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.

Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses
The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.

Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra
The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.

Reading Zarathustra: Prologue
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.

Aphorisms on the in-Between Part I

Zarathustra’s Middle Path

Civitas Peregrina and Affirmation

Mercy without Recognition

Luke 9:57-62: Roads, Renunciation and Following

Enlightenment, Negation, Re-Reading

Acedia and Ressentiment
Acedia and ressentiment are two of Modernity’s sins. We should learn to deal with them.

Messianic Duration

Hamlet’s Ressentiment

Four Meditations on Scandal and Ressentiment

Taking Stock

The Measure you Give…

Republic Book 6: Philosophers and Echo Chambers

The Angel of History
