An Aged Quill Recording: The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges is now available for streaming. Narrated by Joseph…
Aged Quill (Channel Introduction Video)
Welcome to my channel! What an obviously straightforward opener. I provide great books, short stories, and excerpts of what I…
The Trial by Franz Kafka
An Aged Quill Recording: The Trial by Franz Kafka is now available for streaming. Narrated by Joseph Voelbel. A philosophically…
The Zahir by Jorge Luis Borges
An Aged Quill Recording: The Zahir by Jorge Luis Borges is now available for streaming. Narrated by Joseph Voelbel. An…
Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson
An Aged Quill Recording: Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson is now available for streaming. Narrated by Joseph Voelbel. Another essay…
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
An Aged Quill Recording: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges is now available for streaming. Translated by Emece…
Franny by J.D. Salinger
Franny’s obsession with learning how to pray ceaselessly stands out as a singular and brilliant portrayal of the author’s search for God in the idiosyncratic upper crust east coast overly educated critics that are his Glass family.
The Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler
An Aged Quill Recording: The Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler (Excerpt) is now available for streaming. An intelligent and…
The Notesbooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Marie Rilke
An Aged Quill Recording: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (an excerpt) is now available for streaming. This is an…
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
The by and large gist is knowledge of activities occurs in orders of perception. That is, an event is known by the knowledge of it; also, there are orders to knowledge: divine intelligence, man’s reason, the imagination, and sense-based experiences. Boethius thinks the way in which we know a thing is determined by the level at which we approach it. The act of observing a man walking and the sun moving simultaneously above him are both, in his terms, ‘necessary’ when observed. However, one is volutional, that is free-will based (the man walking) though necessary because of its clear observation, while the other is also necessary, (the sun’s movement), but is based on a higher order of cohesion.