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Mystics and Lovers by Arthur Green
September 1, 2020
There is only One. That is the great truth of mysticism, found within and reaching beyond all religions. That One embraces, surrounds, and fills all the infinitely varied forms that existence has taken and ever will take. We Jews call that truth out twice daily in reciting Shema‘ Yisra’el, “Hear, O Israel.” “Y‑H‑W‑H is One” means that there is none other.
Read moreThe Endangered Species of the Polymath by Peter Burke
August 31, 2020
People are talking more and more about polymaths these days, but at the same time, living examples of this intellectual species are becoming more and more difficult to find. By polymath I mean, like the ancient Greeks who coined the term, someone who has mastered many intellectual disciplines, like Aristotle, whose many works are concerned not only with philosophy but also with rhetoric, politics, astronomy, biology, and much more. Polymaths of this kind could be found in ancient China as well as ancient Greece, and in the medieval Islamic world as well as the medieval Christian one, but the best-known part of their history concerns the West from the Renaissance to the present.
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