Thursday, June 8, 2017

Philosophy for beginners


In a pursuit of being modern, people are trying to change our system of the education. For example, in Finland the kinds won’t anymore write by hand - the ability of using the keyboard will be sufficient. The France decided to focus on contemporary times during the history lessons, so the teachers will sacrifice one two hours to talk about the second war and 5 [sic!] to talk about the Arab–Israeli conflict. Of course, nobody says that the Arabic countries are not important, but concentrating just on middle-east, we don’t learn out our origins, factor which created our motherland and our mentality.

Last year, the French government kick out the philosophy and the Latin language from a school. People were disgusted, so they protested. In the homeland of the modern philosophy (Descartes, Rousseau, Sartre, Voltaire, etc), it seems to be a really bad joke.


The narrator of “Sophie's World” says: “Everybody has a hobby. Some people like collecting the stamps. others travel a lot, some other people like fishing and I just can’t convince the fun of rugby that collecting the stamps is more interesting or more valuable. However, there is something everybody has in common: asking about a world. Who are we? What is most important in our life?. The philosophy tries to answer that question or at least, make the people think about their destination. “



The book of Jostein Gaarder should be recommended to everybody. In this way, even the children could understand the most popular philosophical current and in the same time: the European heritage of all generations.


Saturday, June 3, 2017

Agata meets Agatha

Normally we grab a book in order to spend some relaxing time on our own. We are sick of our every-day reality: jobs, taxes, administration issues, money, so we choose to read a good novel. In other cases, people are looking for some answers about a meaning of a world that may be hidden in a novel. It is possible thanks to somebody accomplished, we will find a purpose in our life. Moreover, that some is about emotions. When we are speechless, the poetry reflects what we deeply feel. 

Sometimes reading a book could be perceived as a meeting with old friend. 

The autobiography of Agatha Christie is a such kind of meeting.



One of the most popular author and one of the most introverted person invites us to her small world. We have to take a cup of tea and we could start our journey in a Victorian age. Let’s take a look at the time when everybody who had an honest income wasn’t supposed to work. It was just frowned upon. After we will get familiar with her ideas and numerous travels. We will understand the reasons of creating Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Undoubtedly that would give a new perspective of most known crime stories.



And even if we do not agree with Agatha Christie all the time (due to her conservative point of view), she will always be like our favorite aunt - she can be really annoying, but we have a soft spot for her.