Juliana Pilon, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Juliana Pilon

Juliana Geran Pilon was born in Romania and is a Professor of Politics and Culture and Director of the Center for Culture and Security at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. She has written several books, including Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice. This essay is reprinted here with the gracious permission of Humanitas.

The English Patient: A Classical Tragedy of Love and Paradox

By Juliana Pilon|2014-01-22T14:52:53-06:00June 4th, 2013|Categories: Culture, Film|

In Plato’s timeless Symposium, the wise Diotima tells Socrates: “He who has followed the path of love’s initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts.” For Socrates, Beauty is on a par with Goodness and Truth in the trinity of perfect [...]