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The Wisdom of Thucydides 18 May 2012 | 03:42 pm
Thucydides was probably born about 460BC and was for a time a General on the side of democratic Athens against aristocratic Sparta in what is known as the Peloponnesian War in which most of Greece too...
Aristotle 2 Oct 2011 | 01:44 am
“Happiness depends on ourselves.” More than anybody else, Aristotle enshrines happiness as a central purpose of human life and a goal in itself. As a result he devotes more space to the topic of happi...
About Virtue – ARETÉ (αρετή) 2 Jun 2011 | 12:11 pm
ARETÉ (αρετή)—in ancient Greek a term describing a maximum of ability and potency for action (optimum potentiae); a man’s effectiveness and skill in goodness. In the Polish language it corresponds to ...
Pericles’s Funeral Oration 15 Apr 2011 | 04:01 pm
Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, delivered it at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead. Most of those who have spoken here...
Citizens in Ideal Society Share in Running the State in a Democracy 14 Apr 2011 | 12:01 pm
Classical Greek ideals are considered to be the foundation of Western civilization and to have influenced all aspects of modern western culture. Inhabitants of classical Greece believed that society f...
A new vision for the nation 29 Nov 2010 | 01:31 pm
By Costas Iordanidis There must be another Greece. Beyond the worries about the economic crisis, beyond the degenerating political system, beyond the growing egotism of individuals who readily dismiss...
Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario 1 Jul 2010 | 03:50 am
If Europe fragments, then Germany is the only country in Europe with the ability to create alternative coalitions that are both powerful and cohesive. That means that if the European Union weakens, Ge...
Professor’s Apocalyptic Vision Of America 1 Jul 2010 | 03:47 am
This apocalyptic scenario authored by an ex-KGB analyst has proved a hit with the Russian state media over the past few months. In his interview with Sky News, Igor Panarin said he came up with his gr...
Does the US call the shots in the EU? 1 Jul 2010 | 03:46 am
Now the decision on Kosovo’s independence has been taken, it’s easy to claim, as Doris Pack does, that it was inevitable. But there are always alternative ways of dealing with political problems, espe...
Plunged into Chaos: Europe on the Eve of the Bilderberg Conference 5 Jun 2010 | 06:33 am
by Olga Chetverikova Global Research, June 3, 2010 The Bilderberg group will convene in Sitges, Spain, a resort community 30 km from Barcelona, on June 4-7. As usual, the information is supplied by Ja...
