Turning the Soul: Plato on Education
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave presents education as a journey from illusion to truth. This transformation is grounded in the hierarchy of knowledge, the Form of the Good, and in moral virtues.
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Issue II - Blue Spring
On recollection and the interior life. Cultural memory, ancestral reverence, and the rediscovery of forgotten texts; silence, solitude, hesychasm and the unseen transformation of the soul.
The Long Argument Against Suicide
Suicide solves nothing at all, it only shifts the problem to another state of consciousness.
POEM: The Dogwood + 7 poems by Elise Powers
8 poems, each exploring the intersections of memory, tenderness, and the sacred ordinary.
On Nature Rewritten
This piece explores humanity’s enduring tension between reverence and reason, and the impulse to shape life itself. Drawing on Aristotle, Spinoza, and the Romantics, it argues that creation is not a trespass against nature but the highest expression of our rational and divine curiosity.