Science is advancing so rapidly that it requires individuals to ask themselves questions and challenges that will serve as reference points to help them better understand and embrace the power that science offers to humanity. Otherwise, its achievements can remain “unfathomable.” The pursuit of progress that enables human beings to be freed from suffering, disease, … Read more
Original etymological and conceptual meaning of the word “uljudnost” (courtesy in Spanish) comes from the concept of a court (corte in Spanish), a place where philosophers, artists, writers, politicians, economists, judges, doctors, and generally all experts and prominent individuals gathered in ancient times, whose role was to give opinions and make decisions within a state … Read more
In an old Mediterranean town, I noticed a terracotta amphora being sold alongside various other items… I approached it with curiosity as it was a Roman wine amphora from the 1st century… Taking it in my hands, I saw that it was recently made and that many similar vessels were being offered to passersby a … 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
On the occasion of the 2400th anniversary of his birth… Three years after the founding of the Academy, when Plato was forty-three years old, Aristotle, the most distinguished student of Plato and a philosopher scientist, was born in Stagira on the Halkidiki peninsula in 384 BC. He arrived in Athens as an eighteen-year-old and joined … 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
But we… Who are we? Plotinus was ashamed to live in his body. Thus Porphyry begins the story of his teacher’s life. But let’s not rush to diagnose some sick trait in our philosopher because of that. Even if it is a psychosis, it is not the psychosis of an entire epoch, as I once … 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
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger is one of the most significant representatives of Roman Stoicism. He was born in the 1st century BC in Roman Cordoba. From an early age, he showed talent. Under the influence of his teachers, famous stoics and pythagoreans of the time, he acquired a broad education and became a respected … Read more
