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garylachman8
May 111 min read
Ancient Wisdom or Perennial Philosophy?
The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one...
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garylachman8
Apr 112 min read
Jean Gebser: Leaping Into the Unknown
The German-born cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905-1973) was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Yet aside from...
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garylachman8
Sep 13, 202313 min read
Abraham Maslow and the Farther Reaches of Human Nature
Sometime in the 1940s, the behavioural psychologist Abraham Maslow had what then seemed a radically new idea. He decided to study healthy...
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garylachman8
Jun 8, 202316 min read
The Outsider in the Twenty-First Century
In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four year old British existentialist Colin Wilson made his first attempt at analysing a...
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garylachman8
Feb 3, 202315 min read
Superhuman, Transhuman, or Fully Human?
A question that will become more and more dominant as the century goes on is the question of what it means to be human. We are already...
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garylachman8
Oct 25, 202237 min read
Trickle Down Metaphysics: From Nietzsche to Trump
Sometime in late 1887 or early 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche – unread, unwell, and practically unknown at the time– had an...
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garylachman8
Aug 28, 20222 min read
Welcome to the new website for Gary Lachman
It's odd writing about yourself in the third person, but the fierce competition for attention these days demands one make things as easy...
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