The American Minervan

Tag: physis

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

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

    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. INTRODUCTION The key to Theosophy can also be found in the Hellenic cosmology of the early Greek natural philosophers…

  • Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding

    Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding

    INTRODUCTION I have presented in some recent articles a philosophical and historical argument that ancient Greek and Roman thought, particularly through REPUBLICANISM and Stoicism, undermines any notion of inherent racial or biological hierarchies. It emphasizes universal reason (LOGOS), cultural malleability, civic virtue, and cosmopolitanism as the core of its classical ideals, and I use Aristotle,…