Sublime

Interesting Person from History Michel de Montaigne: The Father of the Essay "Introduction: Michel de Montaigne, a towering figure of the French Renaissance, is best known for his profound influence on literature and philosophy, particularly through his inventio... See more

we can enlarge and enrich experience by recognizing how Greek authors, prior to modern science, represented the thing that is both closest to us and yet is still, in some sense, quite mysterious—our own essence as a human self. Many of their ideas are utterly remote from the individualistic and secular contexts of our body-centered market capitalis

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