Description
Late Antiquity seems to retreat in silence. However, Nietzsche drew attention to the fact that what we know about antique philosophy are not the voices of Plato or Aristotle that once sounded in Athens, nor those of Cicero or Seneca in Rome.
Charles Vergeer is a philosopher, classicist and philologist, and received his doctorate with a thesis on Heraclitus, entitled “Als een akker in de winter” [“Like a Field in Winter”]. His publications include The Letters of the Apostle Paul: Controversies and Consequences (2017); Philosophy in Ancient Rome: A Loss of Wings (2018); Eerste vragen. Over de Griekse filosofie [First Questions on Greek Philosophy] (1990); Een Nameloze: Jesus de Nazarener [A Nameless One: Jesus the Nazarene] (1997); Het Panterjong [The Young Panther] (2000); and Overspoeld door de eindigheid. Inleiding tot de metafysica [Washed over by Evanescence: Introduction to Metaphysics] (2015).