Category: Cultura
Canary Islands: Beyond the Movies
The diverse landscape of the Canary archipelago has been a favorite destination for the fulfillment of millions of tourists.
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Scholasticism: A Beacon of Light in the Dark Ages
In an era ridden with superstition and hearth wisdom, scholasticism became the driving force in medieval Europe’s intellectual progress.
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Marcion and the Origins of the New Testament
Marcion left on Christianity an indelible mark, which for better or worse has lasted to this very day – the compilation of a canonical book.
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The Great Library of Alexandria
Comprising dozens of thousands of texts and parchments, the Library stood for centuries as the world’s learning hub. It was an unprecedented endeavor that stays alive in the books of history as well as in our imagination, millennia after its destruction.
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The Sources of Enchiridion Vol. 1, Ranked by Goodreads: Top #30-21
Our Enchiridion – The Handbook series is built around the words of authors and thinkers who helped shape Western culture. Thus we decided to list all thirty sources from Vol. 1 according to their average ratings on Goodreads in order to find out which work is the best among the best!
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11 Quotes from ‘Lives of the Eminent Philosophers’
Diogenes Laërtius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers is one of the most comprehensive biographical works on the Greco-Roman thinkers of antiquity. Here are ten of the best quotes found in Lives to make your day more philosophical.
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Savonarola’s Dream
Friar, fanatic, despot, martyr, heretic – many are the titles that throughout history have accompanied the name of Girolamo Savonarola, a figure that still baffles many historians both secular and religious to this very day. A Dominican monk sent to Florence in 1481, Savonarola gradually became the most influential preacher in the city, enthralling his listeners with vociferous disapproval of Florence’s immorality and political corruption.
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What If the Anti-Papal Council Came to Be?
While it is hard to predict how the political landscape of Italy would change, it becomes evident that not even all the kingdoms, duchies, republics, marquisates and bishoprics of Italy could have defended Alexander VI against the anti-Papal forces.
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Chesterton’s Take on Savonarola
One of the most acute commentaries on Savonarola is made by none other than G. K. Chesterton in his book, Twelve Types. Here the English author distinguishes the historical Savonarola from the moral Savonarola, ignoring the former and focusing almost exclusively on the latter.
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Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
Abraham is for Christians an example of faith, with an incredible story of hope in the midst of adversity. Kierkegaard, however, goes beyond just that. In what many consider to be his magnum opus, the Danish philosopher expresses his tremendous admiration for the man he calls a “knight of faith.”
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PHILOSOPHY: The Grand Inquisitor – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Few novels have chapters so rich and impacting they can stand apart from the rest of the book, yet this is precisely what has happened with the story of “The Grand Inquisitor,” from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
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Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
Quo Vadis, one of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s most appraised novels, is a tour de force that will take you back to Nero’s Rome, in a magnificent story where love and faith triumph even over the Emperor’s madness.
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