It’s a unique time we live in. There are more libraries than ever in history — yet they become outdated the second they are completed because of the internet. Such a notion was in George Steiner’s Grammars of Creation. …

By Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV A fantastic, emotional, jarring, and superbly shot movie: About 10 months ago I saw Akira Kuraswa’s Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) for the first time and it has been troubling me because I have not been able to figure out an anthropological analysis of the movie. I also have…

By Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV Georges Dumézil originated this theory as a formulation in the field of anthropology — specifically within the study of comparative mythology. Dumézil’s key formulation is that Indo-European societies — starting with Proto-Indo European societies — organize the realm of human social interaction into three…

Project Gutenberg's We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18), by Friedrich Nietzsche This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online…

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or…

By: Charles Lincoln Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV © Attempting to find truth in a study is what Socrates describes in Plato’s Republic as life’s most important achievement: to realize the sun by getting out of the shadows of the cave. If what Has Driesch calls entelechy can be found…

Hegel writes: “The demand for such explanations, as also the attempts to satisfy this demand, very easily pass for the essential business philosophy has to undertake. Where could the inmost truth of a philosophical work be found better expressed than in its purposes and results? and in what way could…

Mama Mia perfectly exemplifies the Freudian tripartite psyche. By Charles Lincoln — Draft version. Not complete. Freud’s Psyche This section is only about Freudian psychoanalysis. If a reader is familiar, the reader may skip this section.