Psychology developed a very good describing language with focus on terms, we missed the words for…
P.S.: I hate countries, where philosophy and psychology, social sciences and art are oppressed (but religions are supported)…
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Actually I’ve published a book via blurb, featuring some of the thoughts, comments, discussions and statements of my daily blog: fragments and feedbacks, June-2013 US $12.10
Appropriate choice of the photo of the statue of Giordano Bruno in Rome, found guilty of heresy for his beliefs and burned at the stake.
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the Giordano Bruno sculpture was the cover photo of my book about philosophy (in German language) “About the persistence of the philosophers”. Bruno had a sad end on the Campo de Fiori in Rome. It took 400 years till at least a not important bishop wrote some un-read “sorry”…
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my heart was touched, when I found on the sculpture’s feet fresh red roses …
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“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” – sigmund freud (about psychoanalysis)
found at http://thebettermanprojects.com/written-motivation/hands-down-favorite-quotes/
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“Sometimes a man is just a man” – dietmar frizz (about the history of philosophy)
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If anyone plans on going to Rome, I would suggest a visit to the Campo de Fiori. It is not one of the more well known piazzas, but it is beautiful and the statue is a powerful memorial.
Bruno was also a skilled Astronomer. One of the things he got in trouble with the Catholic Church for was his belief that the Sun is just one of an infinite number of stars. If God is infinite, the Universe must be infinite as well.
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and in the near is the stunning PANTHEON architecture:
title=”The Pantheon” – photo by Mark (LP) = Mark Broadhead on Flickr, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome
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me about GIORDANO BRUNO:
It is strange, that religion and burning in the history of mankind frequently lie together so near: momentarily the assassination attempts of Islamic fundamentalists in New York, London, Madrid and elsewhere, or (on the other hand) the million humans, who became victims of the Inquisition of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Giordano Bruno has been one of the most famous mourners. Because he questioned the Ptolemaic conception of the world of an earth, around which everything circles, and because he tried to replace the earth-centric-theory by an analysis, which postulated a lot of moving solar systems (plausibly spoken from today’s view), in which there is no hierarchical order, – therefore he had to accept more and more furious attempts against his person, which wanted to force his obedience. Apparently unteachable he classified the subject not as passive nullity directed of God, but as active, self-constructing substance. The theories of the Vatican of the case of sin and of the predetermination of the fate Giordano Bruno rejected as life-strange. “The general opinion is not always the perfect truth…” Giordano Bruno today is still quoted. Such remarks produced expensive, bitter consequences: On 17 February 1600 he publicly was burned on the Campo di Fiori in Rome after eight years torture and dungeon detention. Hundreds of years the burning of disbelieving people seemed to be the major task of the Christian denomination. However today the Pope-administration gradually makes some steps backwards, remorseful: On February 18, in the year 2000, cardinal Angelo Sodano, the undersecretary of state of the Vatican, expressed the “deep regret” of the catholic church (according to ZENITH NEWS AGENCY with regard to the death sentence against Giordano Bruno) in a letter to the participants of a congress in Napoli, which took place for the memory of this Italian philosopher in the local theological faculty 2000. It was a “terrible death”, “a sad episode in newer Christian history”. Respect considering the dignity and the conscience of humans, who look persistently for the truth: this is a level, in the present not yet all countries, confessions or population circles succeed to manage. The book of the British science journalist Michael White (“Science editor of British GQ Magazine”) was criticized by some reviewers, because it has been written in a teenager-language, less scientific, more thrilling like an adventure-story. But on the other hand it is an easily reading, you can practice before you will fall asleep. Short before snoring you can brood about the fact, that religion (connected with the aim to burn people of “wrong” confession) did not yet disappear as a pattern of acting among the earth inhabitants 400 years later…
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Where do you find the time, Frizz? 🙂
Thanks to Peter, for explaining the photo.
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