Tag: Seven Greek Sages
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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…
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Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages Part I: The Traditional Seven Sages and their famous Maxims
THE STANDARD TRADITIONAL SEVEN SAGES OF ANCIENT GREECE The Seven Sages (or Seven Wise Men) of ancient Greece were a group of renowned statesmen, lawgivers, and thinkers from the 7th–6th centuries BCE, celebrated for their practical wisdom and pithy maxims. Ancient sources vary on the exact list, but the most traditional and commonly accepted ones…
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Peter Kingsley: The Presocratic Sages who created Western Civilization
Peter Kingsley on the sacred Tradition at the heart of Western Civilization “We can romanticize about the sacred origins of Tibetan Buddhism and South American Shamanic Traditions, and anything, as long as it’s not our own; and that’s apart of this tremendous understanding, this tremendous resistance. (…) and this is one of the paradoxes I…
The American Minervan 