Category Archives: The Self

Knowledge: An Oration

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Ron Pavellas

“Knowledge itself is unknowable.” —from Plato’s dialogue The Theaetetus “All men naturally reach out for knowledge.” —Aristotle “Knowledge itself is power.” —Roger Bacon I. Today I will tell you a story about how we traveled through time, discovering and collecting … Continue reading →

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“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Ron Pavellas

This is the answer the renown and revered psychologist Carl Gustav Jung gave to the final question posed to him by the British interviewer, John Freeman, in 1959. I offer here my transcript of the final nine minutes of the … Continue reading →

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