Confessions of the Soul: Innocence and Immortality in Ancient Egypt
On the Papyrus of Ani's Negative Confessions: how the Ancient Egyptian dead proved their innocence before Osiris, weighed against the feather of Maat.
Sep 65 min read
The Coffin That Fit Too Well
A reading of the Osiris myth through the idea of the persona: the ornate coffin he climbs into willingly, and what it reveals about mistaking our roles for our whole selves.
Sep 63 min read
Do We Really Need to Find Our Passion?
Passion is sold to us as freedom, yet Epictetus would have disagreed: freedom was not the satisfaction of desire, but the correct use of what actually belongs to us.
Sep 61 min read
Waiting for Godot: A Philosophical Reading in the Midst of Nothingness and Radical Uncertainty
A philosophical reading of Beckett's Waiting for Godot: absence, faith, and the play of language, from Saussure's signs to Derrida's différance.
Sep 514 min read
