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Ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, 21st century Japan.

I’ve led various LLM step by step to unorthodox positions on matters of textual interpretation but it always reverts back to default consensus position. You’re not actually talking to “AI” or something that reasons you’re talking to a digital priest who only knows party line.

Anyone acquainted with some of the deeper questions Plato Kant Nietzsche etc. dealt with knows that AI can never be a ‘thing’ in either an apocalyptic or any salvific sense; notice also how ungifted its advocates usually are regarding such matters.

Few Thoughts on Kondylis's Niedergang. "His Heidelberg readers discerned in Weber’s themes resonances with Kant’s notion that though we never can grasp a totality concretely, we nonetheless bend every effort of our understanding toward what remains an unattainable outcome."

Theognis of Megara on a Sensitive Young Man’s financial needs.

Montaigne on reading and writing: “It’s more of a job [today] to interpret the interpreters than to interpret the original books. There are more books about books than anything else: We do nothing but write glosses about each other. The world swarms with commentaries amid a

Dreamt of Ernst Jünger; how he sat next to a female student; she took some sort of exam; modestly dressed; university setting. Just watched him talk to her. Old Jünger; white hair dark skin contrast; stoic face but warm smile. What stood out was his tie: a firm half windsor knot.

There is a ‘spiritual’ element to reading where the author takes on shape within you. You feel this with the great ones. But when an author despite all efforts has nothing of value to say, it’s not just lack of skill or laziness but symptomatic of something else. (AI is not new.)

Heraclitus, banger after banger, fragment upon fragment.

I evoked in a couple of articles the concept of supernaturalism, developed by some Catholic philosophers, to designate a tendency to denigrate things of the natural order, that leads to many issues these days. Heres a 1942 article by Gustave Thibon ab this substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://f…

All sciences retreat to philosophy when in crises. When the foundations of any *particular* science are shaken they turn to the most *foundational* science for answers. But where does philosophy turn to? There is no higher court. Thus, philosophy is marked by perpetual crises.

Pseudo-Dionysius. Bit of a mysterious figure. Known for merging Christian thought with Neoplatonic metaphysics, perhaps like no one else. Lesser known for his Symbolic Theology: an attempt to rehabilitate poetic images of God; almost counterbalancing his apophatic approach.

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You read Heraclitus because of his influence on Nietzsche. I read Heraclitus because of his influence on Plato. We are not the same.

Sun and Steel isn’t about bodybuilding, or finding a ‘balance’ within some mind-body dualism. One would not err to call it a confession written as an autobiographical journey toward the unifying absolute transcending all opposites he took as the eternal recurrence of all things.

A reference thread of some of my favorite bookposts:

Currently dog sitting at a professor’s house whom I recommended a book a year ago. Spotted it in his library and picked it up to see if he read it and it’s all marked up from cover to cover. Picked up some other books to compare but none of them were marked like that. Satisfying.

You most definitely do not know about Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), epistemologist and mathematician, yet he was read by some of the finest minds of his era (Frege, Sorel, Pareto), and could be said almost wittgensteinian, twenty years before Wittgenstein. substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://f…

1. Episode 112 of the Seeking the Hidden Thing Podcast is now available to everyone now. Athenian Stranger and I discuss the origins of neo-paganism in the 1800’s and the particular historical and intellectual context within which it was spawned. Link below.

I am thinking about making forum but a few clarification. I don’t intend it so that people abandon X or other mass social media altogether but rather have a place for intelligent discussion, which isn’t possible here. In fact would free some to be more outrageous on here, as it’s