It is in the products of great art that we encounter our condition as human beings as metaxic: in between. We come from non-existence and journey to our departure from this existence; the “middle” can seem to be all there is whilst we are in the midst of things. Yet we possess that constant eagerness [...]
The etymology of the Greek word meon is uncertain but it is usually taken to mean “lesser” or small. It has come to have a negative implication in Western philosophy. However there is a way to see the meonic in a positive sense which may have a use in metaxological philosophy; I am focussing here [...]
We must decide and act, but because this process occurs in the metaxy—the experience of being itself, the experience of a tension between the poles of time and eternity—we, like Hamlet, find ourselves, more often than not, in highly equivocal circumstances. For both William Desmond and Eric Voegelin Plato’s concept of the metaxu or metaxy [...]
The transcendent ‘overcoming’ or reconciliation of the Fall of Man—that symbol of the cause of the disorder that we would wish re-ordered, of the return to the garden—is what great poetry graciously asks of us. “An intermediate nature... prevents the universe falling into two separate halves.” —Plato, Symposium (203b). Almost from the beginning of when human [...]