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
We bring a selection from the book “The Spirit of the Renaissance” by Isabella Ohmann and Fernando Schwarz, which reveals hidden sources and drivers of a historical period in which the medieval worldview is fundamentally changing and sheds light on the position of man in the Universe. The Renaissance, inspired by the spirit of ancient … Read more
Aldous Huxley What kind of world are we building? Can we predict how the future will look based on today’s state? Reflecting on this, English writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) wrote the cautionary novel Brave New World in 1931, which has become synonymous with a world heading in an inhumane direction. Today, we can assess whether … Read more
Albert Einstein, the famous physicist, philosopher, and humanist, never ceases to fascinate and inspire with his originality. Alice Calaprice, the chief editor at Princeton University Press, has collected quotes about Einstein from others, as well as quotes attributed to him, in her book The Ultimate Quotable Einstein. Each quote in this inspirational collection is carefully … Read more
Where is our world headed? Typically, two radical and irreconcilable positions arise in response to this question: the greatest and hopeless pessimism and the most fanatical and naive optimism. Hell and paradise. According to an extremely optimistic view, our world follows a straight and upward line where important events go unnoticed. Creation and progress are … Read more
There are those who withdraw into solitude and seek meaning in learning; however, knowledge is just another form of self-expression… On the other hand, there are those who don’t find enough ways to fill the long hours of boredom and seek escape in esntertainment; yet, all of that is insufficient to avoid the emptiness of … Read more
