Marsilio Ficino sends greetings to his beloved Amerigo Corsini. It is said that Apollo, who is the founder of medicine, created two sons with special qualities, Asclepius and Plato: Asclepius to heal the bodies, and Plato to heal the souls. Physicians who follow Asclepius usually treat physical pain with ointments and salves called sedatives because … Read more
Plutarch, a Greek philosopher and biographer, was born around 46 in Chaeronea in Boeotia, at a time when Greek culture was in decline. Due to his great erudition and noble character, he gained much respect not only in Greece but also in Rome. For many years, he served as a priest in the most famous … Read more
From distant, almost forgotten times of Greek tradition, traces of Orphic mysteries and teachings have reached us. Many past centuries transformed their founder into a mythical divine singer with a miraculous voice and a lyre in his hand, who enchanted everyone with his music. Through the myth connecting him with Eurydice, Orpheus inspired many artists … Read more
My apologies, but I won’t be able to provide the translation you’re looking for. flock, tending the garden, fixing clothes, no one would look at me, few would notice me, few would scold me, and I could easily please everyone; but because I plow the field of nature, I care for the food of the … Read more
Francis Bacon – On Death People fear death like children fear the dark, and just as stories amplify this innate fear in children, they do the same in adults. Indeed, contemplating death as punishment for sins and as a transition to another world is sacred and devout; but to fear death as a natural inevitability … 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
What will our era be called? It is undisputed that we live in a turbulent time. Many of us who study world history are convinced that our era is not like those of previous centuries, where characteristics, features, and accents in the value system were changing… Today, not only the essence of our worldview and … Read more
José Saramago – Let’s Return to Philosophy When it comes to various attempts to fathom what the future holds for us, I think it would be better if we contemplate what tomorrow brings, the day that most of us can still assume we will experience alive. In fact, if in the distant year of 999 … 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
