Showing posts with label sub specie academiae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sub specie academiae. Show all posts

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Platonicide

1. the homocide of Plato
2. the dissection of Plato's ideas for academic career requirements

Friday, May 18, 2012

sub specie mundi, -scientiae, -academiae

There is the well-known sub specie aeternitatis which roughly means "from the perspective of the eternal".
But we actually live in mentalities, cultures, societies,...which think of life more:
sub specie mundi ~from the perspective of the earthly life (eg mundane)
sub specie scientiae ~from the perspective of science
sub specie academiae ~from the perspective of the academy 

Monday, April 23, 2012

anthropography

Just as an individual has a biography, so to, also with all the uncertainties and ambiguities of an individual's life, there can readily be conceived the anthropography of mankind, considered as a (in)coherent story. The idea is more inclusive than eg the German Geistesgeschichte or "the history of mankind", or "the spiritual history of mankind", "the history of ideas", etc.

It is a concept which would, as a goal, as a psychology, surpass the divisions developed during history or in academia, of eg literature, religion, philosophy, psychology, history, science, anthropology, art...the humanities, the sciences, the arts, technology....
It would be an attitude, a quest, a perspective to look at the human being -- gnothi seauton -- individually and collectively, sub specie aeternitatis, and not just sub specie scientiae, sub specie academiae.