The American Minervan

Tag: Doctrine of the Mean

  • The Early Greek Natural Philosophers of Physis and the Way of Heaven

    The Early Greek Natural Philosophers of Physis and the Way of Heaven

    INTRODUCTION In the spirit of the ancient Ionian and Eleatic thinkers, who sought the archē, the fundamental principle of all things through reason and observation of physis or dynamic generative nature as a self-unfolding process of emergence. The key to Theosophy can also be found in the Hellenic cosmology of the early Greek natural philosophers…

  • Zisi: Virtue and Accountable Actions | Doctrine of the Mean

    Zisi: Virtue and Accountable Actions | Doctrine of the Mean

    Zisi speaks on being accountable for our actions, for abandoning the path of virtue, and causing suffering under heavens watch. “Some men who have not complied with virtue will yet not acknowledge their offences, and when Heaven has by evident tokens charged them to correct their conduct, they still say, “What are these things to…