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Reading the Iliad: Wisdom and Violence
The first of an ongoing re-engagement with the Iliad. Here we have an untimely meditation that holds up the mirror of violence to a culture desparately in need of alternatives to vendettas.
Mercy without Recognition
Mercy is often framed as an extension of recognition: seeing oneself in the other. This essay pushes in the opposite direction. It explores mercy as an act that does not rely on identification or reciprocity, but on attentiveness to the moment at hand. Mercy here is not sentiment but temporal discipline—an ethical response that resists calculation, delay, and justification.
A New Soteriology
“And Lead Us Not into Temptation, but Deliver Us from Evil”
Claims and Debts Revisited
“Thy Will Be Done, on Earth as It Is in Heaven”
“And Forgive us our Debts, As we Also Forgive Our Debtors”
Levinas
Re-Reading The Postmodern Condition
Overcoming Ressentiment: Belief Versus Practice
