Sculpting Sententiae: An Art Form of Independent Philosophy

This work contains 406 original sententiae (statements) plus a preface discussing why this type of philosophical writing is considered to be an art form. It represents a radical departure from the contemporary university approach to philosophy as a scholarly discipline. Here the mind does not analyze; it apprehends, it sees. The three appended essays present in discursive prose many of the ideas that are more directly and succinctly expressed by the sententiae. In an era of uncertainty, hyp...