Learning serves for pleasure, for ornamentation, and for equipping oneself; it brings the most pleasure when we are alone and withdrawn; we adorn conversations with what we have read, and we equip ourselves for conducting business. Experienced individuals can handle, and perhaps assess, each individual detail; but for general advice, planning, and skillful management of … Read more
Prominent Greek philosopher and ruler, Architas of Tarentum, operated in the first half of the 4th century BC in the former Magna Graecia in southern Italy. He was a representative of the Pythagorean philosophical school and a contemporary of Plato. The teachings and ideas of the Pythagoreans were passed down through Architas, as one link … Read more
First of all, the interesting thing about his biography is in an inversely proportional relationship with the value of his work. Historians have, true, so meticulously and systematically investigated Bach’s life that today all the circumstances of his manuscripts, dates of his concert performances, trajectories of his movements, the amount of his earnings, his illnesses, … Read more
The insatiable need of modern man for classification attempted to place the Russian intellectual Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev into one of the clearly defined sociological categories, so he was often labeled as Christian or Marxist, although he himself clearly claimed in his autobiography that he considered himself “incapable of being part of any organization” and that … Read more
