The sphere of music begins in ancient Greece with Pythagoras who, it is said, heard the harmony of sounds in the intervals of the octave, fifth, and fourth when he passed by a blacksmith’s workshop where hammers struck an anvil. This inspired him to discover the connection between vibration, frequency, and pitch. Pythagoras considered the … Read more
“We all want to be happy. Regardless of the form in which happiness comes (love, friendship, fame, power, or wealth), it is always accompanied by emotions – the state of happiness is a state of great emotional pleasure. However, associating happiness with emotions means placing it on unstable foundations, because emotions themselves are unstable. We … Read more
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) was a Swiss psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author of numerous works that are not easily categorized into existing categories. He spent his lifetime in self-examination, seeking connections between psychology, philosophy, religion, alchemy, dreams, archetypes, and symbols, deepening the path towards his own individuation – one of the key concepts … Read more
Through his works, Carl Gustav Jung encompassed almost all areas of life and science, bringing numerous psychological and human insights. His teachings on archetypes, dreams, and personality typology introduced something significant and new to psychology. He is the founder of analytical psychology, which distinguishes between two levels of the unconscious: the personal unconscious and the … 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
(Socrates): Can you tell me what justice is? (Respondent): What a dumb question, everyone knows what justice is! S: Well, I really don’t know what justice is, and even less do I know what you mean by it. R: Maybe You really want to. So, fairness is something that is equal for everyone, regardless of … 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
Intellectualism One of the many quite serious illnesses that affects modern man is intellectualism. The same things can be said about this evil as about other diseases: that it attacks a certain type of people, under certain conditions, and usually appears at a certain age; the cause is unknown, and the medications used in the … Read more
Watching, not seeing We live in a polluted world and we have become accustomed to it. The level of environmental pollution is increasing day by day, especially in large cities. As we cannot leave them because we are tied to them by our obligations, we have simply adapted to this situation. Our bodies have developed … Read more
