Monarchy is a political system (obsolete I think) that centralizes all state power in the hands of a monarch. It follows the rule of heredity with the primacy of legitimate male children (the principle of cognatic primogeniture with male preference). Probably the biggest difference from the democratic system is…
Trei ore. De atâta timp stă acolo, în colt, ghemuit pe vine. Se uită la podeaua murdară. Ciment infect și rece ca gheata. Plin de scursori. As vrea să ii ofer un scaun dar nu am asa ceva. Celula este mică și are doar un…
The wind whistles through the broken window. Dismal. How can the night be so black and dreary? How can… A guard is heard in the hallway. I shift in bed. The chain at my feet makes a sad noise. Not even metallic. It sounds like rotten bone being rubbed…
„În grădinăToate păsările dorm,Numai una n-are somn,Cată să se facă om.” „Când era badea pe-aici,Erau zilele mai mici.Dar badea s-o depărtat,Zilele s-o-ndelungat.” „Cine are dor pe lumeŞtie luna când apune;Cine are dor sub soare,Ştie luna când răsare.” –Antologie de poezie populara – întocmită de Lucian…
După 11 ani de blogging am făcut, în cele din urmă, pasul. Pasul spre cuvântul tipărit. Spre cartea scrisă. Senzație unică a transformării gândurilor, volatile în spațiul virtual, în realitate tangibilă. Cartea, cuvântul tipărit, are o forță nediminuată de trecerea vremii si de lumea modernă….
Starting from the Hegelian theses of the end of History and Man, today's post-historical world is discussed with shyness. Did History die alongside Philosophy? Immediate reality would say yes. Man has freed himself from changing principles by gradually giving up on them and...
All that remains of Zeno, the de facto founder of Stoicism, are his citations, especially by contemporary or later ideological opponents. Even so, we can understand the greatness of his thought and why the school, the Stoic philosophical current, has crossed the history of mankind…
It has been 1900 years since Tacitus warned us: Ut olim vitiis, sic nunc legibus laboramus. (Once we suffered from our vices, today we suffer because of our laws) I see more and more often the wrong idea that we have no legislative framework,…
„"And Zeno adds: 'If the rational is superior to the irrational and at the same time nothing is superior to the world, then the world is rational.' He argued the same thing regarding what is endowed with intelligence and soul. 'That which possesses intelligence is superior to that which lacks it...
„"According to Zeno the Stoic," I replied, "the entire discursive faculty is composed, as Aristotle had previously maintained, of two parts: rhetoric, which he said was like the palm of his hand, and dialectic, which he compared to the fist, because rhetoricians give a greater extension...