Pollux
Ok, I'm sort of an outsider in this study group...
But I have always wanted to create this themed deck, especially when I was at High School (topics freshly studied!) - and, Kiama, you might like this too... and help me out!
In fact, since my first class of Philosophy, I have been thinking of realizing a deck based on Western Philosophy, from classic Greece to Popper to nowadays... This now sounds idiotic, I know, but I was struck at the time how much material, associations and ideas I got while I went through my classes...
For example, I thought of Shopenhauer's and mentally designed a card for the Popess (in brief, he gave big importance to Maia's Veil, and built with and around it his peculiar view). I thought of Eraclitus's panta rei as the Wheel. Plato's Cave Myth for the Moon and Sun... Nietsche's Uberman as the Magician... Democritus's Eros and Caos (the atomic forces) for Lovers and Devil. Spinoza's idea of Nature provided a good link for the Empress.
Freak!
But I'm sure if I studied it all back again, I would retrieve all my ideas. I used to jot down ideas also on the pages! I might find them in my old books. And, considering Kiama's Help...
My idea of it is similar to the Shakespeare Tarot: a picture, a scene, a representation (as stylized as possible) with a quotation (from a book, a work, whatever...) explaining the association, the meaning...
But I have always wanted to create this themed deck, especially when I was at High School (topics freshly studied!) - and, Kiama, you might like this too... and help me out!
In fact, since my first class of Philosophy, I have been thinking of realizing a deck based on Western Philosophy, from classic Greece to Popper to nowadays... This now sounds idiotic, I know, but I was struck at the time how much material, associations and ideas I got while I went through my classes...
For example, I thought of Shopenhauer's and mentally designed a card for the Popess (in brief, he gave big importance to Maia's Veil, and built with and around it his peculiar view). I thought of Eraclitus's panta rei as the Wheel. Plato's Cave Myth for the Moon and Sun... Nietsche's Uberman as the Magician... Democritus's Eros and Caos (the atomic forces) for Lovers and Devil. Spinoza's idea of Nature provided a good link for the Empress.
Freak!
But I'm sure if I studied it all back again, I would retrieve all my ideas. I used to jot down ideas also on the pages! I might find them in my old books. And, considering Kiama's Help...
My idea of it is similar to the Shakespeare Tarot: a picture, a scene, a representation (as stylized as possible) with a quotation (from a book, a work, whatever...) explaining the association, the meaning...