Ressentiment is not a psychology. It is a composition of time. We have yet to come to terms with its movements.
Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.
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.
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.
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.

A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
An exceptionally detailed and compelling investigation into the evolution of Greek philosophical thought out of myth.
One of the best explanations of Bergson’s thought. Lapoujade connects duration with motion and in the process exposes why Bergson’s thought is more than conceptual philosophy. It is the transformation of how we experience ourselves and the world.
Breton set in motion the philosophical and theological reconsideration of Paul (which was already underway in more scholarly investigations into ‘the historical Paul’). This book is crucial to the reconsideration of Paul that found in his letters the power to suspend the weight of culture to find ‘new horizons’ of salvational experience.
Michel Serres at his most political. This 1990 book is a defining work in the modern understanding of the climate crisis. I've written a long essay inspired by the depth and breadth of Serres vision.
Practices of Time in the New Testament
A reading of Luke’s account of the naming of John the Baptist.
Reclaiming ‘metanoia’ as a word badly in need of rejuvenation.
Chronology
A running list of posts

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

Amore Fati and St. Anthony

Stoic Frontiers

Stoicism and Using Your Time Wisely

Reason, Emotion and “Stepping Back”

Moral Responsibility and the Flow of Time

Seneca and Rorty (on Freud)

Letter 113, From Pedantic to Practical

When Is “Interiority” not on the Inside?

Tranquility, Citizenship, Interiority

Reason, Politics, Anger, Nonviolence

Reason Is Always Provoked

Anger, Delay, Reason

Anger, Reason, Bureaucratic Violence
