Ending 2025 in HK: Exotericism/esotericism

Esoteric Writing I really liked Arthur Melzer’s book, Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing , on how philosophers in the past concealed their thoughts through careful writing, why and how they did so, and why it fell out of favor. If you have doubts about the thesis, there’s a freely accessible appendix that includes testimonial evidence from Homer to Wittgenstein. For…