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• You are what you wear: A Brief Look at Ancient Sumptuary Laws on Fashion

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 23:22 in ancient rome greece rules laws for fashion, fashion clothes statement of freedom lifestyle class status, fashion as controlling limiting freedom choice, uniform sign of belonging respect

  Nowadays, especially in the Western world, we take for granted the fact that we are free to wear what we like. It comes as an addition to the highly prized freedom of expression since people do not merely communicate with words but also through their...

• The “Neck Verse” or Why Medieval Gangsters benefited from Literacy

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 22:06 in how reading could save medieval criminals, medieval monks and benefit of clergy, poor people turning to monasticism for education and food, medieval monks impunity reading

  During the Middle Ages, monks had a special status and with it came various privileges. For all the poor people who were struggling for survival (or those who were simply looking for a means of education), monasticism may have indeed been a good opti...

• Humanity first - Rules and Regulations later

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 23:10 in system dealing real humans as pawns, rules to the exception on compassionate grounds, people not mere number or statistics, humanity and compassion in bureaucracy, humanity health care compassion

  As a general rule I believe that compassion should be first and foremost - right before any rules and regulations. Although I appreciate and understand the necessity of bureaucracy, we should not bury our own humanity under it. Often I have had the c...

• Balance and Equilibrium in the Ups and Downs of Life

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 13:01 in body living in constant harmony, balancing pain and suffering yin and yang, ancient greek belief of harmony and balance, neuralizing forces of life and fortune, harmony cycle in life soul and body

  In my experience, life consists of a continuous cycle of ups and downs, the wheel of fortune, the goddess Fortuna herself in the driving seat. As in the saying “what goes up must come down” there always seems to be a neutralizing factor determine...

• Being versus Acting:The Ethical Dilemma of Morality

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 in being good and ethical intentions, difference between ethics and morality, plato socrates aristotle on morals, mystical union of moral body, pretending being moral ethical behavior

  When we hear that so-and-so is a “good” person, we automatically assume that the person in question is a virtuous and moral being. But is it enough to simply "be" a good person? Can we simply equate being good with a moral being? Plato would pro...

• Sophistry, Flattery, Art and Philosophy in a Commercial World

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 13:00 in media feed pleasing people away actual truth, philosophy noble art free of charge, making money influence art philosophy, art modern commercial profit-oriented world, ancient greek sophist money

  In the modern understanding of the word, “sophistry” has a decisively negative connotation. It refers to people who envelop, even purposely trick and deceive you with words. Nonetheless, the original sophists were a group of wandering philosopher...

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