The American Minervan

Tag: Pre-Socratic Philosophers

  • Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages, Part II: All the Wise Sages

    Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages, Part II: All the Wise Sages

    INTRODUCTORY NOTE One of the reasons I have written this is to inspire us as world travelers, cosmopolitans, students, academics, teachers and so on. To begin, we must understand that if you sought to write a philosophical treatise or found a school (whether intentionally, directly or indirectly), how much the ideal of modern perfection and…

  • Theosophy, Pre-Socratic Monism and Cosmology in relation to Abrahamic Monotheistic Claims

    Theosophy, Pre-Socratic Monism and Cosmology in relation to Abrahamic Monotheistic Claims

    Within the Theosophical framework, as articulated by H.P. Blavatsky and in David Reigle’s analyses of an ancient, pre-Vedic Wisdom Tradition, the Pre-Socratic sages such as Thales, Anaximander, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras (often included in this group) are regarded as pivotal figures who birthed Western civilization and philosophy by drawing from a primordial, universal esoteric…