Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 31 Human beings have a natural tendency to arrange ideas along a single axis. Political doctrines, philosophical systems, and even scientific theories are commonly represented as occupying positions on a line, with one doctrine at one end and its supposed opposite at the other. Such representations areContinue reading “Excursus 125 – On the Geometry of Ideas”
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Excursus 115 – On Reading Earlier Philosophers Through Later Traditions
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 08 Throughout the history of ideas, later intellectual traditions have frequently interpreted earlier thinkers through conceptual frameworks that arose only afterwards. Such reinterpretations may illuminate genuine continuities, but they may also obscure important differences by attributing to earlier authors concepts, intentions, or doctrines that belong primarily toContinue reading “Excursus 115 – On Reading Earlier Philosophers Through Later Traditions”