Culture

Duty · Order · Way of life

A Sanskrit term with no single English equivalent — somewhere between law, duty, order, righteousness and the nature of a thing.

Knowledge · Experience · Understanding

Not the amount you know, but what you do with it — judgement formed by knowledge, experience and restraint.

Language · Transmission · Precision

A classical Indo-European language whose grammatical precision shaped how a vast body of philosophy could be argued.

Union · Discipline · Practice

A family of disciplines aimed at steadying the mind — far older and far wider than the postural practice the word now names globally.

Stories · Symbols · Civilization

The stories a culture tells to hold its answers to questions that resist argument.

Way · Path · Course of things

The way — both the course things naturally take and the path a person might align with.

Personhood · Community · Southern Africa

A Nguni Bantu term for a view of personhood in which a person becomes a person through other people.

Fire · Foresight · Consequence

The Titan who steals fire for humanity and is punished for it — the West's oldest story about the cost of knowledge.