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Parmenides of Elea and Plato Elea in Campania was the site of a famous school of thought from the sixth century BC with philosophers like Xenophanes, Parmenides and Zeno, which have profoundly influenced the next logical reasoning, and Plato in the complex dialogue "Parmenides" do to demonstrate the theory of the ideas with the dialectic technique own to the greek-Italic thinker; regarded in practice the first "noble and majestic" Western metaphysical (as opposed Aristotle, is the disciple Zeno the first to effectively to use the dialectic technique). Parmenides in the fifth century BC about developing a correspondence between thought and being until get to demonstrate the unity of Being, the metaphysics immobility of the Absolute (a precursor of the theory of "nothing is created nothing is destroyed") as opposed to the eternal flux of Heraclitus and introducing the principle of non-contradiction, trying to combat false beliefs enemy of the reason. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 19, 2010 
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 The platonic defense Many platonic dialogues have like dominant topic the figure of the philosopher Socrates (469 - 399 B.C.) engaged with several adversaries to make to emerge the idea of True leaving from far away and then approaching to the dominant topic of the speech with a chasing series of questions and answers in order to make to come to the surface the truth that does not leave space to falsifications or artifices that can send away from the attainment of the objective, but at the same time in some cases on the background emerges the problem of as he must face the unjust sentence to death that has been inflicted (for his instructions and course from the cost of a single one drachma). To the process in spite of the shining and passionate defense described in the famous "Apology", the sentence seems be already established and indeed the philosopher maintains till the end his attitude of challenge against sages who nothing know, while him is very aware to not know and thus he set offs serene towards a sleep.. without dreams. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 27, 2010 n: 1234 Plotinus Neo-Platonic philosopher One of the greatest exponents of the Neo-Platonism which made progress in thinking greek between the second century until about the seventh A.D. was the philosopher Plotinus born in Lycopolis of Egypt in 203 (?) and died in 269 in Minturno in Campania, where he went because of an illness that struck him while teaching in Rome. The philosophy of Plotinus from 232 to 243 pupil of Ammonius the Alexandrian was basically a reworking of Plato with an argument developed with an indirectly emanationism between God and Nature, through his "substance" or hypostasis in a triadic system with Logos and Soul, which some interpret as disruptive of genuine thought of Plato, although Plotinus had even planned to found a city "Platonopoli" type that of the Platonic Atlantis, an idea from that probably took inspiration also St. Augustine. End of the Neoplatonic speculation is the ecstasy, contemplation as a species of universal bliss. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 02, 2010 n: 1187 The Platonic justice In the dialogue "Gorgias" the philosopher Plato (427 - 347 BC) explains with the dialectical technique that the rhetoric is the art of obtain reason through the persuasion more useful to the strong to crush the weaker with counterfeiting of all types as happen with the cosmetics instead of gymnastics, which manage to fool only the incompetent and leads to believe without knowing, since the rhetorician has no knowledge of what is the greater good and in order to obtain reason ends up to do evil, considering that doing injustice is the greatest of evils. In a discussion with Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, Socrates is able to explain that do injustice is worse than suffering and evil even higher don't pay a just punishment for the evil committed, becoming in this way to cure from the injustice (the worst of evils). The first well is to be fair that leads to the "happiness" and is preferable to suffer rather than commit injustice. [Automatic translation global English] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 01, 2010 n: 1160 The Platonic serenity The initial part of the Critones is one of the most beautiful pages written by Aristocles (427 - 347 BC) in this dialogue that describes the attitude of Socrates, who despite being closed in jail awaiting the death sentence is carried out, just to stay faithful to his principles, refuses the proposal of Critones to escape, and even must persuade the friend who tries with every argument to convince him that to be executed not scared him at all and adopting the dialectic technique explains how to escape would be a greater evil than death. The accusation of having killed a man just and sober as Socrates will be done to the Athenians (= the citizens in general), and Plato also describes the last moments of life of the philosopher who, after drinking the hemlock remains absolutely calm while all despair.. To note that Aristotle, for example instead fled to the condemnation that had been imposed to him for to prevent committing more sin against the philosophy. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 05, 2009 n: 1140 The Plato wisdom According to the Athenian philosopher Aristocles (427 - 347 BC), the only true wisdom is in practice "to know of not to know" and this theory is explained with examples from Socrates often the protagonist of the Platonic dialogues, which however, has not left written anything, because the books are like that bronze vases that if beaten do nothing but an echo and therefore have "no answer, nor to ask" (in the Protagoras), and writing is like those paintings that seem "almost alive, but if you turn them a few questions remain in venerable silence" and instead, to find the truth would require a persuasive discussion of questions and answers. In the Theaetetus Plato explains the difficult work of digging deep within ourselves "maieutic" with dialectical method to analyze everything, down to an empty condition and "a good essay does not think know what you do not know", but this consideration goes even a continues research for a all the lifetime [automatic translation global English]. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 02, 2009 n: 1111 Plato and Solon In the dialogue "Crizia or of the Atlantis" Plato (428 - 347 BC) recounts what his grandfather had heard tell from Solon about the Atlantis island that was located beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the antiquity and was swallowed by a cataclysm, a story of a perfect and an exuberant nature characterized by a very fertile land cultivated without effort from farmers who were also lovers of beauty and in general all the inhabitants of the island (larger than Libya and Asia put together) lived in harmony, handing down from generation to generation an admirable order. Solon, who lived approximately between 640 and 560 BC although it is sometimes referred now in ironically mode was a legislator and poet of great wisdom, author of initiatives for social justice for the poor, the slaves, the exploiting people.. and then author of verses, poems, elegies that in the schools of Athens students learned to memory and example model for the orators. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 10, 2009 n: 1040 The Platonic archetype According Aristocle (428 - 347 BC), the archetype, which derives from the greek archè=origin and tupos=model, is a term that identifies the ideas, models of all things, universal forms existing in all individuals (paradeìgmata), a priori knowledge that may not come from the world and relation living, but are inborn as were learned in a dimension beyond the physical reality. These theories have been developed in part by the modern psychology always starting from the Platonic ideas and archetypes, such as the knowledge of higher authorities and the phenomena of nature (sun, wind, water..), then the vicissitudes of life (born, grow, die..) or even geometric shapes such as equilateral triangle, rules and mathematical theorems. To note that in researches done on young children has been verified in many cases the presence of this kind of innate and pre-existing memories [automatic translation global English]. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 23, 2009 n: 1028 Platonic love laughable but true One of the key concepts of the Aristocles philosophy (428 - 347 BC) is the platonic love that would be that sort of anxiety or restlessness, and indomitable eros pushing to possession of the Truth and the contemplation of his idea, through the dialectic that helps to achieve the happiness, and these arguments are supported in different dialogues of the Athenian philosopher, particularly in the "Banquet" (Symposium) in which Socrates, with an admirable mastery of the material senses, in dialectic with Agaton explain that love being the son of Poros (expedient) and Penia (poverty) is neither good nor beautiful as it is desire for what you not have, and only love for the Idea of Good, the Beautiful in itself leads to the true Love free and disinterested in its highest stage.. Often these concepts are used to make a mockery of Plato and Neoplatonism or lived as if out of the reality in other dimensions, forgetting that many philosophies support the same idea [automatic translation global English]. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 17, 2009 n: 1000 Natural selection and continue creation We return to discuss about the evolutionary theory at this time because the 12 February we celebrated two hundred years since the birth of Darwin and between the other things one hundred and fifty years have passed after the publication in 1859 of "On the origin of Species" in which the author explains the theory of the natural selection as an explanation of evolution, really not new and yet so positive about its correctness, but also has enough evidence to clear some points. There is also a Platonic theory of evolution (if can interest), in fact Plato claims in the "Timaeus" that the creator has created the material world as a copy and likeness of the eternal ideas, putting order in the preexisting chaos thanks to the ideal forms; theory developed by St. Augustine, which also supports the principle of the continue creation.. and later by St. Thomas that considers all the things created by God, which contains all the Ideas, by an act of free will. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 12, 2009 n: 899 The Platonic Anamnesis One of the most important concepts of what is the Platonic philosophy (of Aristocles 427 - 347 BC) is known as a anamnesis or reminiscence, which derives from the greek "anàmnésis" and involves the ability of can remember the hyperuranic ideas, learning the common notions from the material world that are merely copies of universal essence.. ideas before the body; for example, the explanation of a complex mathematical theorem is already present in our minds and will enough the guide of the philosopher to do remember it in the memory. The doctrine of the anamnesis for which to learn must be a simple to remember is present in several Platonic dialogues and in particular in the "Meno", but we must distinguish the memory of the Ideas and of the pure intelligible than that for the sensitive things, that are linked together to by analogy and are recalled to the memory in a normal life and relationship. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 30, 2009 n: 888 Metaphysical development of the Well of Plato According to what might call the metaphysics - "after the physics" of the Plato philosopher (427 - 347 BC) the idea of the Well is the Sun of the world over sensible and scatter the light of the Truth on all the things like for gradations make them intelligible, a concept that certainly exceeds the individual nature and can be understood only by a kind of religious reasoning, for example St. Anselmo of Aosta said that all the good things participate of the same goodness, good in itself (and which can not be disclosed in full), which is the supreme Good, so everything exist, is there for something of unique in the highest degree, and then the multiplicity of beings test result a nature greater than the whole. These ontological concepts have been partially corrected through the "streets" to the faith of St. Thomas of Aquino, that develop the arguments of Aristotle (starting from the immobile engine.. up on the Universal order). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 24, 2008 n: 860 Religious images to decrease the pain In the past it was shown that prayer and religious images had a significant effect on the body and now a further confirmation comes from a research conducted on a group of individuals that believers subjected to a painful stimulus in front of an image of the St. Virgin Maria showed to the tools less painful sensations of a group of non-believers, but in front of a not religious image the measurements were equivalent in both groups. On the other hand testimonies about experiences of separation out of the body (OBE) narrated by individuals that have suffered for example of a cardiac arrest and then were revived, seems that have identified an area of the brain affected by the phenomenon that is can be divided into several stages, but appear remarkable the clarity of the vision (as if is from a high level) of the body and what happens in the immediate vicinity. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 02, 2008 n: 790 The ideas of Aristocles in the cave of Plato In the dialogue "The Republic or of the Justice" the Athenian philosopher Aristocles (427 - 347 BC) describes a conversation in which Socrates defines the justice as the virtue to strive always to the good in every situation and also in a general sense (referred to the rulers); in fact, identifies the unjust with the ignorant who claim to know and so ends up oppress all people to satisfy his low instincts. The idea of good is the foundation of justice is that of every other value and as the sun gives light and life to all living beings, in the same way the good gives the light of knowledge, and for to do an example understandable Plato uses the famous "myth of the cave" in which some men are chained with their backs facing the entry and forced to see the shadows of objects that other leading passing in front of the cave projected by a strong light of fire, that they exchange for the reality; but freed from the chains and gradually brought to the light (the ideas) will be convinced of the mirage.. (violence and war are the shadows, Justice and Good are the Ideas). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 10, 2008 n: 748 The soul or the intelligent spirit of Anaxagoras Among the philosophers who first have recognized in the living presence of the need to mention the Greek Anaxagoras (Klazomenai 500 B.C. - Lampsacus about 428) than for many years lived and taught in Athens but had to undergo a process of impiety since stated that the sun was a glowing mass and not a deity as claimed his adversaries; as well as with regard to the origin of all celestial motion, all should be caused by a rotation (Nous - intelligent spirit), which has produced a separation in the original mass, so that the great thinker said: "In the beginning was the chaos, then came the Nous who gave orders to all the things" and the world will never end because the spirit has ordered all smaller particles, the seeds (omeomerie) that are to the basis of all the elements for which "everything is all over." Anaxagoras passed the days to contemplate the nature and making exceptional discoveries for the age apparently disinteresting of the homeland, but to his detractors showed his true home as the sky. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 06, 2008 n: 745 The immortal soul of Plato In the Phaedo, Plato (427 - 347 B.C.) with a dialogue between Socrates, Phaedo, Simmia and Cebetes show the presence of the soul, starting from the observation of the opposites in becoming things, like sleep - walking, cold - hot, wake up - falling asleep, hot - cold, life death and rebirth, then the proof of remembrance, as the sight of an instrument provoke the reminiscent of the musician, the portrait - the original.. then absolute values as Beauty, Goodness, Equality, Inequality, for example without the knowledge of the beautiful things we could not admire the Beauty, reconnected to the memory first of the born life (since in this world we have never not known absolute values). Then the test of the similarity whereas everything that is composed is decomposable like the body; instead, things that are simply not decomposable as the soul which is similar to the intelligible, and all that is beautiful is part of the Beautiful idea, snow participates to the cold Idea and the Soul to that of the Immortality. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 22, 2008 n: 736 Meditation under large trees The life on Earth is made possible by that wonderful "chemical laboratory" this predominantly in the leaves of plants through the chlorophyll photosynthesis turn the water and the carbon dioxide under the influence of the solar light in carbohydrates, fats, proteins.. releasing oxygen that makes possible the survival of man and all the living creatures on the globe (for this reason usually is defines this biological phenomenon as green slavery). Meditation under a big tree, for example, may be a small act of gratitude for the vegetal universe having understand as the carbon of living organic matter comes from the carbon dioxide (refusal product) and through the chlorophyll, plants synthesize and transform; moreover, you can imagine ideally as the flow of energy that nourishes us and oxygen to breathe comes into practice from the leaves, all with a balance of rare perfection, which may be a moment of spiritual elevation. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 07, 2008 n: 726 Aristocles who was him ? Many do not know the true name of one of more important geniuses of the humanity and they do not realize of how many times every day recur to an ideal of the Plato philosopher (Athens 428 - 347 B.C.), in this way called from the gym teacher for his athletic shoulders. Was dedicated initially to the public life, but noticed of the falsity and corruption of the politicians, not endured it; so decided to study philosophy, in the attempt to improve the State and to render it more just. Was disciple of the sophists and of Socrates, so could develop the marvelous doctrine of the Ideas. To cause of the wars, of the dead of Socrates (victim of a murder with the cicuta) and the breakdown of the democracy, Plato was forced to leave Athens and to go from Euclides to Megara, then in Egypt and finally to Siracuse in Italy, to the court of Dionigi, trying to put in practical his philosophical ideals; without to succeed (it was made also enslaved). Returned to Athens founded the Academy, the famous school to which he was dedicated until to the dead (but he returned also in vain to Siracuse) and he wrote brilliant works like: "The Republic, the Timeo, the Phaedrus" and now is considered one of the prophets of the Christianity, as an example the story of the "Phaedo" discuss of souls that after the dead are judged in a underground world, the evil men ends for ever in the Tartar, the just ones catches up a species of Paradise, the others instead, must before purify in the Acherusia lake. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 03, 2007 n: 564 Origins of soul and psychology The study of the soul is a practice more than bimillenarian and psychology etymologically means science of the psyche or soul, but the first book that have in the title this term has been written from Goeckel and published in 1590. For soul (psyché for the Greeks was the cause, the principle the essence of the life) generally agrees with and the substantial principle of the thoughts, feelings, inclinations, passions of the individual personality that then are object of study of the psychology with to the problems and relations between spirit and body.. science that has origin with Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C. disciple of Plato) that - has made for the psychology more than whichever - with the "Of the Soul" and others works. In the XIII century thanks to the precious job of St. Albert Magnus (with the Parva naturalia) and of his "disciple" St.Thomas of Aquinas has been possible to develop the theses of Aristotle with nearly modern type techniques with the psychology like branch of the natural sciences and rigorous reasonings founded on the experience (the base however it remains that one of Aristotle). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 15, 2007 n: 553 Lev Tolstoj noble soul The author of "Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection.." was born to Jasnaja Poljana in 1828 in a Russian noble family, he made legal studies but it was interested also of literature and music; then he was official of the army in the Caucasus participating in first person to the conflict against the Turkey, documented in "Storys of Sebastopoli" characterizes from the famous tolstoiano realism (become then one literary style). The novels of Tolstoj beyond to be that masterpieces of the literature are perhaps nearly of the philosophy books, in which the author hides his religious vision of the life of spiritual high power that permeates the vicissitudes of the protagonists of his works; but rising is recognizable also a kind of torments on the style life to adopt. The famous author extinguished itself in 1910 after an escape for a pilgrimage to cause of the nth quarrel with the wife perhaps provoked from his eclectic soul, a few unstable with multiple interests.. (a monument of the literature and the not violence). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 30, 2007 n: 539 Simple and deep philosophy The philosophy would have to be love for the knowledge, the research, in order to make light on the more intimate doubts and deep of the human mind, like as an example from where we come and where we are directed, on the sense of the existence and its scope, of because we reason and we place questions; but from the moment that everyone have an own philosophy of life also the philosophy definitions can change. The proverbs as an example are a type of simple "small change" philosophy adapted for all the occasions, but exist also complex and deep theories, difficultly comprehensible without one adequate training. Perhaps as far as instead the theology it could be said that it tries to give the same answers of the philosophy with in more the light of the faith, everything considered is rather similar disciplines that integrate to vicissitude (to part the cases of "philosophical atheism" that they deny or try to bring on the ridiculous every position). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 11, 2007 n: 523 Meditation and yoga salutary Various studies confirm some abilities already known for a long time of the meditation, as an example practicing the Tibetan yoga regularly in order to contrast the collaterals effects of the chemotherapy like the nausea. The practiced for some months of the transcendental meditation could be also useful in order to stabilize the nervous system and against the resistance to the insulin, the hypertension or the so-called metabolic syndrome (whole of pathologies like the abdominal obesity, that raise the risk for the cardiovascular system). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 08, 2006 n: 219 Wizards to the onslaught Continuous from months without interruptions in Italy the process to a wizard supported from famous presenters, and the amounts of money of the swindles become more and more consisting, nearly scandalous; in fact we could ask in order which reason of the adult persons are disposed to spend very much money for this type of performances that in kind is known does not carry nothing of good.. only most expensive and harmful packages. The onslaught in kind begins from the first morning with the inevitable horoscope of the day (only apparently innocuous), then continues on all the media with the several wizards and games of all the types firm until evening and to times even the night, just a permanent incubus to which is difficult subtracts (would want a little red traffic light low to the screen in order to indicate the danger). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 22, 2006 n: 104 To pray in order to totally recover A research carried out from the Duke University in the North Carolina has found that to attend the religious functions regularly and to read the sacred texts succeeds to maintain the pressure low also in age advanced, with consequent positive effects on the cardiovascular apparatus. It would seem that there are of the advantages also in the recovery after operations to the hip and in the expectations of life; then in the complex 57% of the studies carry out on the prayer would demonstrate that this last one could often act in favour of one recovery. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 20, 2006 n: 103 To pray for the fanatics A recent pastoral research marks that a boy on five prays every day, but the frequency to the festive celebration is a few irregular, and then it would seem that in the greater part of the cases the faith to the young has been transmitted from the mother. Perhaps our lay society does not succeed well to communicate the religious values to the students, to the contrary of other civilizations that exaggerate in the opposite sense forming in practical of the fanatics, that they quite succeed in to kill a Christian missionary (even if the motivations are not very clear). For a real dialogue between religions it would want more respect to us for the faith of the others, even if mistaken, and then the prayer and hush would have to lead to the peace, but this is difficult in a world where many have the "poker" in the hand. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 08, 2006 n: 95 To meditate do to grow the brain Seems that of the Americans investigators would have measured a light increase of the dimensions of some zones of the brain in the persons that meditate. The amazing data is that has been found, contrarily to how much could be thought, a greater increase in the old individuals that meditating could improve the efficiency of the brain nearly to the levels of an individual much young; therefore for various reasons, to train itself daily with the meditation makes well to all the ages. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 01, 2006 n: 89 More better the forgiveness of the vengeance Seems that has become fashionable to speak about revenge even if the modern salutary techniques teaches that it would have to learn with the exercise and the aid of the prayer to pardon refraining "the beastly" impulses in order to favor the total well-being, however on Natures has been published a study carried out near the College University of London based on neuroimages, that contradicts the popular credence that the vengeance it's female. From the research it turns out that the women often are moved, while the men in theory would be revenged pitilessly until in bottom perhaps for effect of an ancestral mechanism for which the man was responsible of the survival of the community. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 20, 2006 n: 81 Consciences annihilated After a long period of hush without warning are appeared in the video a chilling film about the war, where in a practices barracks climate, the adversaries was "annihilated" according to the famous Latin adage "mors tua vita mea (your death is my life)" between bad words and inexpressible imprecations. That the war is monstrous is well-known to all, but when it comes to lack also the "pietas (compassion)" towards the wounded enemy to earth (to annihilate), perhaps wants to say that the consciences and the spirits are little or for null trained (but with these methods will make sure career that seems much more important of the life). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 12, 2005 n: 60 Meditation also for the intellect There would be new scientific evidences about the capacities of the meditation (seems can to develop the prefrontal cortex), but this is an argument contested from some scientist [source: Wisconsin University] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 11, 2005 n: 12 Qi gong give a durable well-being The sweet martial art known like Qi gong provoke a global well-being (seems can modify the genetic code), and also if was known that meditation and relaxant gymnastic increases the immunitary defence, now there is a real scientific evidence [source: Journal of Medicines] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 03, 2005 n: 6 The meditation give longevity A study signals a substantial decrease of death in the patients that practise the meditation [research: American Journal of Cardiology] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 15, 2005 n: 22  ... <
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