Paragraphos Journal
Readings, not summaries.
Close readings of difficult passages, arguments reconstructed without flattening them, and ideas followed across traditions.
THE SELF
A question across traditions
The knower, the claim of ownership, the idea of a persistent person. Three texts make the word ‘self’ difficult in different ways. A lineage of a question, without a claim of historical inheritance.
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HOW DO YOU SEARCH FOR WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW?
Plato's Meno and the problem of inquiry
THE SELF YOU CANNOT FIND
Early Buddhist thought beside David Hume
THE VIEW FROM HERE
Zhuangzi and the instability of this and that
THE ROAD YOU CANNOT TAKE
Parmenides and the problem of thinking what is not
THIS IS NOT MINE
SN 22.59 and the practice of not-self
WHERE DOES PHILOSOPHY BEGIN?
Why a history of thought may need more than one beginning
WHEN DESIRE LEARNS THE MEASURE
Confucius and the long education of desire
THE SEER CANNOT BE SEEN
Yājñavalkya and the problem of finding the self
DO NOT LISTEN TO ME
Heraclitus B50 and the problem of logos
Why Paragraphos?
A note on reading slowly in an age built for compression