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Sir Philip Sidney: Neoplatonist, Cabalist, Hermeticist and Patron of Giordano Bruno
Author: Julian ScottDecember 30, 2025
Everyone is probably familiar with the image of the glittering court of Elizabeth I, the ‘Virgin Queen’ surrounded by glamorous courtiers like Sir Walter Raleigh (founder of Virginia in America, who brought back the potato and tobacco to England) and Sir Francis Drake, whom the Spanish call ‘El Drake, the Pirate’. One of the most [...]
Is Meaning Dead?
Author: Sabine LeitnerDecember 30, 2025
I have always believed that it is healthy to question everything every now and then and to check whether the beliefs we have adopted during our journey through life are still valid. In some way, we could call this a mini-crisis of meaning because it can be quite painful, even destructive to current arrangements, and [...]
Giordano Bruno: A Mystic of the Infinite Cosmos
Author: Sofia VenutiDecember 30, 2025
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and mystic whose radical ideas about the universe, God and human potential placed him at odds with the intellectual and religious authorities of his time – the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. A Dominican friar turned itinerant scholar, Bruno is remembered today as a visionary who challenged the dogmas [...]
Romanticism or Realism?
Author: Julian ScottDecember 30, 2025
This question occurred to me as I was coming to the end of the 19th century novel Middlemarch by George Eliot (the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans). As the characters’ lives and actions came to fruition I found myself thinking: would this person’s life really have ended like this (so happily), or would they have [...]
Developing Inner Life
Author: Siobhan FarrarDecember 30, 2025
“Inner life is indispensable” – Jorge Angel Livraga Rizzi In general scientists and philosophers agree that what we call ‘Life’ is characterized by movement, and ‘inner life’ is the same, except that the movement is of an inner or invisible nature. This includes the movements of the ‘stranger within’ whom we can recognize as a [...]
The Fear of Cults and the Courage to Think
Author: Gilad SommerJuly 15, 2025
The word cult comes from the Latin colere, meaning to cultivate—a root it shares with words like culture and agriculture. It originally referred to tending, especially in the sense of worship, as in taking care of the gods. Up until the 19th century, cult carried no negative associations. It was commonly used to describe religious [...]
The Joy of Discipline
Author: Zarina ScrewvalaFebruary 18, 2025
You may ask what joy can discipline bring? Doesn’t discipline suggest a rigid, regimented life? Evoking images of hard work, full of rules and regulations enforced by others that you reluctantly follow? Perhaps, we can learn more if we ask ourselves: Is discipline something that comes from outside? Or from our own will and choices? [...]
Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence: A Philosophical Perspective
Author: Yaron BarzilayFebruary 18, 2025
When writing this article, artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of the most spoken-about topics worldwide for a while, with equally mixed views of great excitement and heavy concern, as it is a significant disruptor already involved in almost every aspect of our lives. While a wide range of incredible possibilities is opening up before [...]
The Importance of Hope
Author: Shraddha ShettyFebruary 18, 2025
The story of Pandora is an ancient Greek myth of which many different versions exist. The one written by Hesiod in the 7th century BCE, tells of Zeus, angered by the Titan Prometheus, who gave the gift of fire to humankind, was determined to exact retribution not only from Prometheus, but from all of humanity. [...]
Jatakas: The Eternal Interplay between Virtue and Karma
Author: Malini NairFebruary 18, 2025
Jataka in Sanskrit means birth stories. The Jatakas are a collection of over 500 stories that recount the past lives of Siddhartha Gautama, the being destined to become the Buddha. These tales, preserved in the Pali Canon and dated between 300 BCE and 400 CE, are an integral part of Buddhist literature, encompassing profound moral [...]
Celebrating World Philosophy Day: Building Unity through Diversity
Author: The Acropolitan Magazine Editorial Team( Compiled By)February 18, 2025
By establishing World Philosophy Day, UNESCO has underlined the enduring value of Philosophy as a discipline that can transform individuals & societies, by developing critical thinking, & responding to the various moral and social challenges facing the world today. New Acropolis International celebrated this day with the theme Building unity through Diversity, in over 500 [...]
The Lessons of Prosperity
Author: Gilad SommerNovember 2, 2024
‘No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.’ (Adam Smith) “The best things in life aren’t things.” (Art Buchwald) The twenty-first century has provided mankind with one of its most important experiences and lessons – material prosperity is not enough for human flourishing. Like [...]