Although constructive and destructive criticisms are often mentioned, we disagree with this division because everyday experience shows that criticisms are always destructive. The problem is not in the criticism itself as a rational process, but in the person who acts guided by their emotional and subjective impulses instead of sound reason. We live in a … Read more
Zen Buddhism is quite an unusual teaching. Historians and philosophers today debate whether it is a religion or a philosophy because Zen denies any external rituals, does not require special clothing or diet, and does not involve philosophical debates or religious revelations. The entire Zen literature consists of anecdotes from the lives of Zen teachers … Read more
The Renaissance is often interpreted as a return to the values of the ancient era. However, the return to antiquity is not just the convenient acceptance of some past and forgotten knowledge. It is once again understood as the main source of humanistic thought. The Renaissance man is a man of tradition, inheritor of human … Read more
Bruno is a very complex personality, a representative of the transitional crisis period at the end of the 16th century, precisely the era that endowed Europe and the world with universal geniuses, great workers of the spirit and action, original thoughts and artistic achievements. Today, he is best known for his defiant attitude before the … Read more
Division of Istria according to Herman’s comments from his translation of Abu Ma’shar’s Introductiorum maius in astronomy. However, the Renaissance did not happen “overnight”, it started long before through the works of people who, with their fighting spirit, broke the dogmatic image of the world in which they lived and thus, consciously or unconsciously, paved … Read more
The Sibyl, who fervently utters serious, cryptic and muffled voices, penetrates with her voice through a thousand years, possessed by a god. (Fr. 92) Heraklit left his book in the temple of Artemis, let those who are capable of understanding read it. Heraklit’s work is lost, and only fragments of his philosophy remain, estimated to … Read more
Cosmological doctrines The great diversity in gnostic views of the world may be a result of the primary focus on gnosis, which penetrates to the essence, while faith deals more with external matters and therefore provides a lower level of knowledge. Respecting knowledge (gnosis) greatly, gnostics associated faith (pistis) with the ignorance of laypeople and … Read more
For a long time, there was a belief that Gnosticism represents a pre-Christian philosophical and religious system that, like a virus, infiltrated young Christianity at the transition from the old to the new era, trying to use it as a means for spreading its own ideas. It is from these circles that the concept of … Read more
This year marks the 420th anniversary of Giordano Bruno’s death. As his burning at the stake is often mentioned more frequently than the significance of his philosophy, we consider it necessary to briefly outline the basic features of Giordano Bruno’s philosophical thought. Bruno expanded Copernicus’ heliocentric system to include the “infinity of the universe and … Read more
A natural and unaffected person should be adorned with virtues, just like a precious gem, if it is without adornment, should be valuable. But if a person pays attention, they will see that in terms of praise and recommendation, it is the same as in acquiring and gaining: because the saying says it well: Small … Read more
