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Marina Abramovic & Ulay, 1986
From the Series Tuesday – Saturday 1986, Part I and II.
Courtesy: Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Germany.
Marina Abramovic & Ulay, 1986
From the Series Tuesday – Saturday 1986, Part I and II.
Courtesy: Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Germany.
There is a phrase you are as likely to find in a serious philosophy text as you are in the wackiest self-help book: ‘Know thyself!’
The phrase has serious philosophical pedigree: by Socrates’ time, it was more or less received wisdom (apparently chiselled into the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) though a form of the phrase reaches back to Ancient Egypt. And ever since, the majority of philosophers have had something to say about it.