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If you’re fond of travelling and amazed by ancient architecture, if you like grand celebrations and don’t refuse listening to unusual stories, you should visit the Czech Republic. Walking along stoned streets of Zlata Prague or some others town, one is sure to plunge into the distant past, attached by narrow streets, ancient buildings and gorgeous cathedrals, ubiquitous street Continue reading
If you are very lucky and you read fairy tales “Thousand and One Night”, you would learned about the “fragrant pearl Maghreb.” That’s why the book is called Tunisia. This small country is bright star in the Arabic world. It is washed by the warm and gentle waters of the Mediterranean Sea, there are many flower beds, gardens, fountains, shops with exciting “fragrances” in the cities and you can see sand roses in the desert. Continue reading
Intuitionism is an idealistic way which was popular during XIX-XX centuries. Active development of science, breaking outdated rules. Spreading techniques and mechanic manufacturing, all these aspects had great influence on appearing such doctrine about moral duties that can be directly discerned. Intuitionism is like an opponent for logics that had a great influence for the whole world.
Intuitionism in different ways has different meanings. For example, philosophy understands it as the direction that proves that it is impossible to observe the world through the science. The science Continue reading
Socialism – is socio-economic ideas, the main topic of which is social justice.
Ethical socialism – is a concept, according to which the essence of socialism is not political and socio-economic relations, but moral values. The main ideas of ethical socialism were firstly defined in the late XIX-XX century, by the members of Marburg school such as – Hermann Cohen, Paul Natorp, Rudolf Stammler, Karl Forlender, Nelson and others. They attempted to substitute (or expand) the theory of scientific socialism by the principles of idealistic ethics. Continue reading
Who does not like to watch movies? Does someone like that exist? I don’t think so. You seat comfortably on the couch, take a cup of tea in your hands, press “play” and plunge into a completely different world. World of fairy-tales or reality, peace or war, goodness or evil, comedy or tragedy … Many sites are fluttering with the lists of films you should be see that somehow influence our lives. And they certainly do!
Can we be morally educatedby movies? Can Continue reading
Benedict Spinoza (1635-1677) made a big input in ethic changing it in natural philosophy. His main work is “Ethic” the doctrine of substance. The thesis of the rational nature of man stands in his seminal works. His ethics has something in common with the ethics of Hobbes and is in its incompatible denial of natural origin. But nevertheless they differ in its main definitions.
Scientist in some way continued Dekarta and made his further belief about nature, but in denying the divine origin of the concepts of ethics Spinoza made more preference to Hobbes. It should also be noted Continue reading
Shock, terror, disorientation, fear… These are the feelings that a person, who has witnessed or become a victim of a terrorist act, goes through. The modern world is in flames, terrorist acts happen almost every day. Some attempt to report and count them. On November the 13th, a terrorist act took place in Paris which, according to statistics, was the 300th terrorist act that happened on our planet. However, if we take into consideration that not all similar events were taken into this account, then we can say that this event obviously has another Continue reading
Dmitry Dontsov was a strong, freedom-loving, categorical and critical Ukrainian activist and philosopher. Nationalism was the basis of his life.
Dmitry was one of those who believe in their thoughts and actions; for whom the opposing ideas is an enemies who had to be eliminated; who unambiguously defends his position to the end. He had a radical ethical system, which was closely interwoven with his ideology of Ukrainian nationalism.
So, on this basis, he argued that Ukraine has to break away from Russia for the national self-assertion. He was Continue reading
Sweden is a very interesting country from the point of view of ethic and esthetic rules and traditions.
For better understanding of what kind of country Sweden is, we need to have some information about its history.
Sweden is a small northern country. It took Sweden almost half a century to transform into one of the modern, innovative and rich states in the world from a poor weak agricultural country. Continue reading
Not regarding the extremely utopian mindset of Thomas More, the end of his life was undeservedly tragic. He was destroyed by the system because of disobedience to its rules, pursuit of the higher values, happiness and justice. In our days XV century is perceived like it has no impact on our lives at all. But in fact the world has not changed so much in a moral sense. There are too many unsolved problems left since then. People suffer of ignorance but stubbornly refuse to be saved. They keep on crucifying prophets.
In his book “Of a republic’s best state and of the new island Utopia” or simply “Utopia“, Thomas More Continue reading
