Browsing: Philosophy

A religious council scene accompanying an article on heterodoxy and heresy in the fifth and sixth centuries. The composition presents ecclesiastical authority gathered around an institutional declaration of truth, while a marginalised figure is positioned beneath or outside the central assembly. The spatial hierarchy represents heresy as both doctrinal exclusion and removal from the symbolic body of the community.

A photograph of the monumental rock-cut tombs at Naqsh-e Rustam in Iran. The image accompanies the article’s discussion of the Sasanian world, where religious orthodoxy, imperial authority, social hierarchy, and competing claims to legitimacy were closely intertwined.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on the theological conflicts of the fifth and sixth centuries, focusing on Rabbinic Judaism, Byzantine Christianity, Sasanian Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Mazdakism, Samaritan communities, and Mandaeism. The image represents theology as a system of textual authority, institutional discipline, religious law, and political power.

A medieval fresco attributed to Lippo Memmi showing Thomas Aquinas enthroned at the centre of an ordered intellectual and theological composition. Divine authority appears above him, while philosophical figures and scholastic authorities occupy the lower part of the image, symbolising the institutional structure of Scholasticism and its reconciliation of reason with faith.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Socratic wisdom, examining the unity of knowledge and virtue through technē, logos, justice, responsibility, and the political philosophy of Plato’s Republic.

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: The Limits and Conditions of Knowledge

A Filomythos concept essay defining the Data Myth as the belief that data is neutral, complete, and self-evidently true, while concealing its selections, exclusions, and silences.

A Filomythos concept essay defining Code-Will as the hidden law of form in the AI age, where data, models, optimization, and platform logics reshape aesthetic and linguistic norms.

A Filomythos concept essay defining Machine Gaze as the algorithmic regime that processes images as data and redistributes visibility, recognition, classification, and visual power.

A Synthetic Epistemology concept essay defining the Threshold Human as the subject who thinks with AI systems while retaining interpretation, critique, and ethical responsibility.