Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Filozofija sama me je naučila da se uzdam u vlastitu savest

"Ovo sve ne govorim bez golemog bola i gnušanja, i to ne protiv vladalaca, već protiv filozofa našeg vremena, onih koji tvrde i pripovedaju da se nema rašta baviti filozofijom, jer drže da filozofima nije zajemčena nikakva za to plata, niti kakva nagrada; kao da već samom tom rečju svojom ne dokazuju da i nisu filozofi. A budući da su u životu posve vrgnuti u trku ili za dobit ili za slavoljublje, oni i ne dokuče spoznaju istine po sebi. Dopustiću sebi, a neću se zbog toga nimalo stideti, da se pohvalim, da nikada, iz bilo koje pobude druge nisam filozofirao do iz pobude prema filozofiranju samom, da za revno učenje svoje, ni za noćno uz sveću naukovanje nisam nikada nikakvu drugu platu ili ne znam kakav drugi dobitak niti očekivao niti zajtevao osim negovanja svoga duha i spoznaje istine, mnome oduvek žarko željene. Za njome sam uvek žudio i u nju bio toliko zaljubljen, da sam, lišivši se svake javne i lične brige, celoga sebe podao onome moru razmišljanja; od njega me nikakva panjkanja zavidljivaca, nikakve uvrede neprijatelja mudrosti, ni do sada nisu mogli odvratiti, niti će to ubuduće moći. Filozofija sama me je naučila da se uzdam u vlastitu savest više negoli u sudove drugih i da uvek imam na umu kako je manje važno da šta zlo o sebi čujem, negoli da šta zlo sam kažem ili učinim."



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Marina Abramović - Walk Through Walls (excerpt)

Image
Once I was a postwoman. Not for very long, though. None of us had wanted to go back to Belgrade when the festival was over, but in order to stay in Edinburgh, we had to find work. So I got a job as a mail lady. I was excited about my new job, but after a few exhausting days of walking around the city, often lost and not speaking the language very well, I decided to only deliver the envelopes with nice handwritten addresses and throw out everything else—especially the bills. My supervisor asked me to return my uniform. That was that for postal work. Then Demarco asked me if I knew anything about interior design. “Of course,” I said. Of course I knew nothing. He took me to an architectural firm and introduced me to one of the principals. “We are designing a dining room for a luxury cruise ship,” the guy said. “Can you give us your input?” I reported for work the next morning. The first thing I did was to take a pile of white paper and draw a closely spaced grid on each sheet. I...
Keep reading

Ariana Huffington - Maria Callas (part I)

Image
(1923-1941) Maria's fighting instinct beginning to assert itself, but it was still her mother who was the force driving her on. Evangelia’s head may have been in the clouds about her daughter’s prospects, and her heart nowhere in evidence, but her feet were solidly on the ground. The conclusion she reached in the last days of 1936 was that, if Maria was to have the teachers and training she would need for the career Evangelia dreamed of, they would have to return to Greece. There, with her family’s musical connections and without her husband’s constant objections, she could dedicate herself even more thoroughly to the polishing of the treasure she was convinced she held in her hands. However logical the arguments in favor of leaving for Greece, the arguments against the move were equally compelling. In the end it was not logic, but instinct that resolved Evangelia’s dilemma. She had a dream in which her father—the figure who from her childhood had been most irrevocably associat...
Read more

Carl Jung and the Gnostic Anima

Image
Preuzeto sa sajta Lune Jovanović The Gnostics already knew about the transformations of the anima. In their writings we find a kind of development of the anima, from its most primitive stage up to wisdom. The most primitive anima is Chawwa, the earth. She is Eve, who represents the all-motherly and the receiving. At this stage, the anima is still a purely sexual being, a kind of earth goddess in a nearly prehuman developmental form. A further stage is Helen. According to a Gnostic legend, Simon Magus discovered a girl in a brothel in Tyrus (Phoenicia), in whom he recognized a reincarnation of Helen of Troy, and whom he therefore named after her. Helen of Troy was an adulteress and the lover of many a hero of those times.She was actually the type of the “femme qui se fait suivre.”The link between these two women is that both of them carry a light within them, regardless of their bad reputation. Helen of Troy means beauty to the man, the Gnostic Helena ennoia (consciousness)....
Keep reading