Pitfalls on the way to transparency
Transparency does not lie in reporting. It reflects personal will, which is a combination of wisdom, power and beauty. Continue Reading
Wisdom
General Education
As nothing like general public exists so there is nothing like general education. Continue Reading
What saturates formal democracy?
Contrary to the general impression, it is not so difficult to explain God’s emergence and function in human history. We can easily disregard God as a pre-scientific concept, but we cannot accept God’s role in almost any society. Even if… Continue Reading
Beauty
Beautiful is something that is both powerful and wise. Beauty, along with power and wisdom, is an ontological and not phenomenological property of reality. Continue Reading
Power
The only productive coercive power that you have, is the power you can execute on yourself. Continue Reading
What have values to do with energy and power?
Power that is not harnessed by wisdom and order is destructive energy. Continue Reading
Wise or clever
A couple of years ago I sat with a good friend in a larger but good company. While enjoying some partly enjoyable catering (yes, it is possible to enjoy something that is not enjoyable!) he uttered: “Andrej, you are too… Continue Reading
Mind, intellect and wisdom interpretation
I wrote the previous post about wisdom for a couple of reasons: As a strong supporter of 280 characters TW messages I do at the same time fight against self-evidence. Self-evidence is a direct result of “short reasoning”. Short reasoning is not… Continue Reading
Mind, intellect and wisdom challenge
The poem in praise of Dante. It should be clear by now, by six or even more millennia of daily comprehension of what is “us” and what is out, of what is wits and what is all about. It should… Continue Reading
How to be a liberal conservative
We’ll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow old. Charles Kennedy The presumption that youth is liberal/progressive and that men get more conservative with age is misleading. It is a result of… Continue Reading