Commonplaces from On the Treatment of the Lust of the Stomach and the Sexual Organs by Abu Hamed Muhammad al-Ghazzali

Posted on June 28th, 2021

Know that the merit of hunger does not lie in that there be anguish, just as the merit of medicine does not lie in it...

Commonplaces from Al-Ghazali Letter to a Disciple (Ghazali Series) by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

Posted on June 18th, 2021

O disciple, advice is easy what is difficult is accepting it, for it is bitter in taste to those who pursue vain plea...

Commonplaces from The Essential Writings of Machiavelli

Posted on April 5th, 2021

The Art of War In order not to let my leisure pass without doing something constructive, I have decided to write wha...

Commonplaces from Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam: On Copia of Words and Ideas by Donald King and David Rix

Posted on March 25th, 2021

In proverbs of this sort, allegory sometimes results in enigma. Nor is that bad, if you are talking to the learned, o...

Commonplaces from The Bhagavad Gita by Juan Mascaró and Simon Brodbeck

Posted on March 24th, 2021

"In the actions of the best men others find their rule of action. The path that a great man follows becomes a guide t...

Commonplaces from Drops Like Stars by Rob Bell

Posted on March 2nd, 2021

Catherine of Aragon said,"None get to God but through trouble." In his memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About ...

Commonplaces from Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power by René Guénon

Posted on February 2nd, 2021

1 Authority and Hierarchy history properly understood also has its place in integral knowledge, though it has no val...

Commonplaces from The King of the World by René Guénon

Posted on February 2nd, 2021

2 Royalty and Pontificate Pontifex literally means ‘builder of bridges’, and by its origin this Roman title is as it...

Commonplaces from The King of the World by René Guénon

Posted on February 2nd, 2021

2 Royalty and Pontificate Pontifex literally means ‘builder of bridges’, and by its origin this Roman title is as it...

Commonplaces from The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon

Posted on February 1st, 2021

1 The Dark Age The more they have sought to exploit matter, the more they have become its slaves, thus dooming thems...

Christopher Hurtado

Christopher Hurtado has over twenty-five years' experience teaching a broad range of subjects. He is self-taught in the classics, holds a Bachelor's in Middle East Studies/Arabic and Philosophy from Brigham Young University, and an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He is a serial entrepreneur with startup and takeover/turnaround experience in various industries. He has varying degrees of fluency in twelve languages and has lived and traveled abroad extensively. He lives in Mapleton, Utah with his wife, Alysia, and their children.