Philosophy: Letters of a Stoic – Seneca
Stoicism is perhaps the most famous philosophy coming from Ancient Rome. In the Empire, stoicism helped inspire many people to live virtuous lives, and live in harmony with what most philosophers referred to as the Stoa; the way people should live. One of these stoics...
Reading: Robert Cardinal Sarah – The power of silence
Something that is missing dearly in our modern world is something that we often try to avoid, namely silence. One needs only to look outside and see and hear all the noise around him. Not just in hearing, but in sight too. In this sense, our modern lives are almost...
Reading: Where Poppies Blow – The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
The legacy of the Great War revolves mostly around the death and destruction it brought upon Europe. It wiped away the old and arguably gave way for even more conflict. However, even in the horrors of trench warfare, one may find beauty and solace. Despite its...
Reading: The Vanquished: Why the First World War failed to end, 1917-1923
For most people there is still a lingering thought hanging about in their mind about the Second World War. Though its memory is slowly fading away, people these days still view this enormous conflict as a clear ‘breakaway point’ from the development of...
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