Gunter Scholtz’s seminal work *Philosophy of the Sea* (2016) examines the human being through the history of their interaction with the sea. The concept of the sea allows the author to trace the mechanisms of reflection—from the origins of philosophical thought in ancient Greece to a critique of 20th-century geopolitical theories. Humans are land-dwelling animals; the sea is their mirror. The book is structured like a sea voyage. The reader travels along the currents of European time, making stops at pivotal historical moments that forever altered the relationship between humanity and the sea: Miletus and Ephesus; Atlantis, Bensalem, Taprobana, and Oceania; the birth of natural law amidst the debate over the freedom of the seas; freedom and humanity in the mastery of the sea; the sublimity of the sea; and the beginning and end of the history of progress.