Seven Myths of the Soul, Revised 2nd Edition

For more than one thousand years, the Pythagorean and Platonic philosophers of antiquity visited and revisited their primeval mythological heritage which was the living heart of their pagan religion, art and science.

Event Highlight

The Platonic tradition holds that the soul is a mysterious and amphibious creature that must negotiate two worlds, that of eternal being and that of time-bound “becoming.”

Education Highlight

From the environmentalist point of view one of the most disturbing things about Greek philosophy is its tame acceptance of the view that we humans differ enormously from all so-called ‘non-rational’ animals.