The final part of the statement is kata ten tou chronou taxin, according to the measure of time.  We might say all things and processes elapse in time and time is the universal order (taxis) of the sequence of positions which pertain to every event.  But this is a modern way of thinking, not an … (6) Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy (Anaximander Part 4)

“The fragment of Anaximander presents one of the strongest hermeneutic challenges known to modem philology and philosophy.”  (Prof Vassilis Lambropoulos: Stumbling.Over the ‘Boundary Stone of Greek Philosophy’ Two Centuries-of Translating the Anaximander Fragment) “For things pay one another penalty and retribution for their wickedness.” (Anaximander) or “they (beings) bestow compliance and correspondence on one another … (5) Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy (Anaximander Part 3)

“The fragment of Anaximander presents one of the strongest hermeneutic challenges known to modem philology and philosophy.”  (Prof Vassilis Lambropoulos: Stumbling.Over the ‘Boundary Stone of Greek Philosophy’ Two Centuries-of Translating the Anaximander Fragment) We’ve been thinking about “beings” for Anaximander, which we have argued does not mean beings as a whole collection but beings in … (4) Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy (Anaximander Part 2)

“The fragment of Anaximander presents one of the strongest hermeneutic challenges known to modem philology and philosophy.”  (Prof Vassilis Lambropoulos: Stumbling.Over the ‘Boundary Stone of Greek Philosophy’ Two Centuries-of Translating the Anaximander Fragment) Heidegger’s reading of the Pre-Socratics: Anaximander Part 1. Summary and Analysis. In this lecture course, Heidegger is looking at rethinking Anaximander and … (3) Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy (Anaximander Part 1)

After talking to a few people I decided to summarize the previous The Late Date of the Gospels blog post series regarding 2 issues: (i) A Second Century date for Mark and (ii) The theory Luke comes after Matthew. MARK I argued that the traditional dating of Mark around 70 CE is unsupported because it … (4) The Late Date of the Gospels: Supplement

This volume comprises a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1932.  It’s topic is the beginning of Western philosophy and deals with Being and beings.  What is Being?  The quote from Plato’s Sophist that appears at the beginning of Heidegger’s “Being and Time” is: “For you have evidently long … (2) Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy

“Aristotle, Plato’s disciple, relates at one place (Nicomachean Ethics, Z 7, 1141b 77ff ) the basic conception determining the Greek view on the essence of the thinker: ‘It is said they (the thinkers) indeed know things that are excessive, and thus astounding, and thereby difficult, and hence in general ‘demonic (daimonia)’ but also useless, for … New E-Project: Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy

This is my new updated blogging index for this fine book. In 2011, Jesus Mythicism, the idea that Jesus never existed, was at peak popularity on the internet with sites like Neil Godfrey’s Vridar and Project Reason’s forum, and I was searching for scholarship engaging with Christ Myth theorist Earl Doherty, and I found Prof … “The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus (2024)” Anthology by James Crossley (Editor), Chris Keith (Editor) – FINAL Updated Blogging Index

The crucifixion of Cleomenes III and his snake that converts the onlookers has been ignored by commenters in large part because a date for Mark has been assigned from the war due to Jesus’s supposed prediction (66-74; probably 70). This seems to be mostly apologetics because it establishes the earliness boundary, not the lateness one. … (Conclusion) The Late Dates of the Gospels

Last time I thought a bit with Robert M Price about a late date for the gospels thinking about topics like Marcion. It seemed that Mark and Matthew alluded to the Jewish revolt (though Mark was a bit of a stretch), and that all synoptics seemed to be post-Plutarch with the key allusion to the … (2/2) The Late Date of the Gospels