#philosopher
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/amp/ukrayina-filosof-hryhoriy-skovoroda-300-rokiv/32145420.html
"The #philosopher of freedom." Even at 300 years old, Hryhoriy Skovoroda is very modern
December 3, 2022, 06:00
Rostislav Khotyn
..."The iconic image of #Skovoroda is a traveler "without a circle and a yard", as they would say in the popular language, with an obligatory bag on his back. And in that bag - the Bible and his own manuscripts. Well, and a pipe or a flute, which accompanied him everywhere. In his old age, he already walked with the shepherd like some kind of prophet - or maybe he was one?
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Skovoroda was interested in the themes of God and knowledge, love and friendship, peace of mind and sin, human defects and human strength... The core of his philosophy is self-knowledge, the inner world of man, his inner cosmos, the universe. "Know thyself!" - he taught.
"To know God, one must know oneself" - Hryhoriy Skovoroda
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In independent #Ukraine, everyone knew about Skovoroda - because he appeared on the 500-hryvnia banknote.
On the same banknote, there is also a pan drawing of an unusual fountain. This fountain fills vessels of different shapes with water.
"The idea of this fountain may be that you can be a vessel, a vessel of small volume, but the main thing is to be filled," philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko said in an interview with Radio Liberty , emphasizing that life should be lived to the fullest, no matter who whatever you are
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During the current war, Russian rockets hit the Skovoroda Museum in Kharkiv Oblast. The museum was destroyed, but the monument to Skovorodi stood."...
#Philosopher of law Eva Vlaardingerbroek recorded a statement of support for the farmers. “Do you remember the Dutch farmers? And their brave protests last summer? Do you remember how they fought for our freedom?” she asks in a video she shared with her 317,000 Twitter followers.
“I'm sorry, but I have bad news. Our farmers are losing this battle and the Dutch government is winning,” she says.
Lies
In the Dutch 🇳🇱 TV show Ongehoord Nieuws (Unheard News) she explained that she recorded the statement of support because she is in close contact with many farmers and notices that they are losing hope, that they are starting to believe in the lies that are being told by the mainstream media. told here in the Netherlands. For example, that they have lost the support of the people.
“Then I thought: that is not true,” says Vlaardingerbroek, who decided to take matters into his own hands and record a statement of support for the farmers, asking everyone in the world to let our farmers know that they support become.
Extremely Inflated
She received thousands of responses. "Worldwide there are many people who disagree with the criminal expropriation policy of our government," said Vlaardingerbroek.
“It has blown up tremendously. I really hope that this will kindle the fire in the farmers again and that they will start protesting again before the elections.”
#HannahArendt, born Johanna Arendt on October 14, 1906 in Linden, Hanover ( #Germany) and died on December 4, 1975 in New York (United States), was a German naturalized American scholar known for her work on political activity, totalitarianism and modernity from a philosophical and historical point of view.
Often described as a “ #philosopher”, she referred to herself according to her profession: #professor of #political #theory, or political theorist. Her refusal of #philosophy is notably evoked in Condition de l'homme moderne where she considers that "the major part of political philosophy since #Plato could easily be interpreted as a series of attempts to discover the theoretical foundations and the practical means of a definitive #escape from #politics.
@astrotheme
Voltaire | Writer, Wit, #Philosopher and Rebel
"After a couple more run-ins with the authorities Voltaire went to live in England for three years. But the French Government continued to pursue their troublesome citizen, censoring or suppressing much of his work and ordering some of his books to be burned. In 1734 Voltaire made a decisive break from France by moving to Switzerland where he was to spend much of his later life.
"He was able to afford such extravagance and live comfortably thanks to the French lottery. Voltaire had teamed with mathematician Charles Marie de La Condamine and other gamblers to exploit a loophole in the way the lottery was run so that their syndicate repeatedly won huge prizes and they all became very rich."
https://www.onthisday.com/articles/voltaire-writer-wit-philosopher-and-rebel
#art #bookburning #book-burning #censorship #england #exile #exploits #france #freedom #history #loophole #lottery #mathematics #painting #philosophy #politics #RaySetterfield #rebel #religion #setterfield #switzerland #voltaire #wit #writer
Every year on #April #22, #Earth #Day marks the #anniversary of the #birth of the modern #environmental #movement in 1970. We are honoring Earth Day with the #futurist #Buckminster #Fuller (1895-1983), an American #architect, #systems #theorist, #author, #designer, #inventor and #philosopher. Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on #renewable #sources of #energy, such as #solar- and #wind-derived #electricity.
Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known #geodesic #dome; #carbon #molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic #spheres.
I just copied this from *https://karsh.org/buckminster-fuller-2/ :)
Happy Birthday, Noam Chomsky!
#Happy #93rd #birthday to #NoamChomsky, the #legendary #American #linguist, #brilliant #intellectual, #philosopher, #cognitive-scientist, #historian, #radical, #social #critic, #activist and #member of the #IWW #union who was #born in #Philadelphia, #Pa. His #critique of #capitalism and #US #foreign-policy is as #accurate as ever.
How Gramsci Went Global
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/how-gramsci-went-global/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
https://archive.org/details/AntonioGramsciSelectionsFromThePrisonNotebooks/mode/2up
’The old has died, but the new has not been born yet.’ #Gramsci #quote
'2021 marks #50years since the first #English #edition of #AntonioGramsci's #PrisonNotebooks. His #Marxism recognized how #culture and #politics shape #economics as much as vice versa. That insight also applies today.'
#antoniogramsci #gramsci #global #italian #marxist #philosopher #legacy #pci #culture #hegemony #politics #capitalist #society #democracy #revolution #history #working-class #intellectuals
Who was Karl Marx?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FaOKNpAiIM
' #Philosopher, #historian and #economist, #KarlMarx, not only #changed the #world, but #divided it as well. Marx's #analyses and #theories #motivated many #people to take #political #action.'
#whowaskarlmarx #marx #documentary #history #capitalism #journalism #socialism #communism #world #workers #unite #economy #yanisvaroufakis