La Filosofia è la vita

La Filosofia è la vita: il ponte tra pensiero e azione. Philosophy is life: bridging thought and action.

How Pain Can Reveal Your Enemies

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© by Maurizio Bisogno, 2014 When you have intense physical pain, you are induced to commit important mistakes, you are pushed to isolation, you observe a reduction of your life space – you are being subject to elimination, then you have enemies. Intense acute physical pain makes you prone to commit mistakes that can have very serious negative consequences in your life; also it makes you behave in a manner that you push away people from you, as you become short tempered and intolerant of interactions with others, therefore you are more and more isolated; your life space is reduced

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The Dominant System of Thoughts and the Possibility to Dissent.

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Every society, every historic period has a way of thinking or a view of the world that is more common, more popular than others, nevertheless there is always a different way of thinking that starts at a certain time in that same society. Probably the most known of the ancient Philosophers, thanks to Plato who wrote a series of dialogues in which Socrates is the main character, Socrates was somebody who dedicate his life to questioning men and authorities and he paid with his own life his determination to pursue the truth above everything. Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Jeanne d’Arc,

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Is Philosophy Really So Distant From Our Life?

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Knowledge, reason, mind, freedom, destiny, identity, God, goodness, justice, politics are all issues which are dealt with in Philosophy, but they are also questions that people generally approach in a more spontaneous way, since these issues are precisely those which shape the way we think about the world and how we define our place in it, as well as being major issues examined by many great thinkers. The word ‘philosophy’ brings with itself some rather unfortunate connotations; you often hear that it is abstract, it does not have much to do with the real world, that it is stuff for

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