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Embracing Discomfort: A Recipe for Fulfilment
Article By Trishya Screwvala posted by Kurush Dordi, October 1, 2024
Our world today lays an incredible amount of emphasis on comfort. We have constant innovations enabling us to exert the least amount of effort in our everyday tasks – instant food and grocery delivery, cleaning robots programmed to mop our floors at specific times in the day, digital forums for learning and interaction without the need to step out of our homes,...
Losing the Battle, but not the War: Life Lessons through Muay Thai
Article By Sheetal Shetty posted by Kurush Dordi, October 1, 2024
I plunged into the sport of Muay Thai as an adventure, to know and develop myself as an athlete, but little did I know that I would be learning much deeper lessons of life; in how to be an inner warrior.
Muay Thai (Thai boxing) is a martial art and combat sport known as the ‘Art of Eight Limbs’. It is characterized by the combined use of both the fists, elbows, knees, and...
Building Values of the Olympic Spirit
Article By Shruti Chopra posted by Kurush Dordi, October 1, 2024
Some of us from New Acropolis (India North), along with 17 other countries came together to take part in the 8-day long, Philosophical-Sports Pre-Season event in Greece. But what is a Pre-Season about? How does New Acropolis, a School of Philosophy connect with the School of Sports? What does it mean to be a Philosopher-Athlete that practices the values of the Olympic...
The Lessons of Prosperity
Article By Gilad Sommer posted by USA-NC, November 2, 2024
‘No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.’ (Adam Smith)
“The best things in life aren’t things.” (Art Buchwald)
The twenty-first century has provided mankind with one of its most important experiences and lessons – material prosperity is not enough for human flourishing.
Like every idea of progress in...
Celebrating World Philosophy Day: Building Unity through Diversity
Article By The Acropolitan Magazine Editorial Team( Compiled By) posted by Kurush Dordi, February 18, 2025
By establishing World Philosophy Day, UNESCO has underlined the enduring value of Philosophy as a discipline that can transform individuals & societies, by developing critical thinking, & responding to the various moral and social challenges facing the world today. New Acropolis International celebrated this day with the theme...
Jatakas: The Eternal Interplay between Virtue and Karma
Article By Malini Nair posted by Kurush Dordi, February 18, 2025
Jataka in Sanskrit means birth stories. The Jatakas are a collection of over 500 stories that recount the past lives of Siddhartha Gautama, the being destined to become the Buddha. These tales, preserved in the Pali Canon and dated between 300 BCE and 400 CE, are an integral part of Buddhist literature, encompassing profound moral and spiritual teachings expressed simply and...
The Importance of Hope
Article By Shraddha Shetty posted by Kurush Dordi, February 18, 2025
The story of Pandora is an ancient Greek myth of which many different versions exist. The one written by Hesiod in the 7th century BCE, tells of Zeus, angered by the Titan Prometheus, who gave the gift of fire to humankind, was determined to exact retribution not only from Prometheus, but from all of humanity. Zeus forges a beautiful maiden Pandora, and sends her into the...
Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence: A Philosophical Perspective
Article By Yaron Barzilay posted by Kurush Dordi, February 18, 2025
When writing this article, artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of the most spoken-about topics worldwide for a while, with equally mixed views of great excitement and heavy concern, as it is a significant disruptor already involved in almost every aspect of our lives. While a wide range of incredible possibilities is opening up before us, presenting what seems to be...
The Joy of Discipline
Article By Zarina Screwvala posted by Kurush Dordi, February 18, 2025
You may ask what joy can discipline bring? Doesn’t discipline suggest a rigid, regimented life? Evoking images of hard work, full of rules and regulations enforced by others that you reluctantly follow? Perhaps, we can learn more if we ask ourselves: Is discipline something that comes from outside? Or from our own will and choices? And where does the joy come? This...
The Fear of Cults and the Courage to Think
Article By Gilad Sommer posted by USA-NC, July 15, 2025
The word cult comes from the Latin colere, meaning to cultivate—a root it shares with words like culture and agriculture. It originally referred to tending, especially in the sense of worship, as in taking care of the gods. Up until the 19th century, cult carried no negative associations. It was commonly used to describe religious practices, including mainstream ones such as...
The Herculaneum Papyri Breakthrough
A Scroll Silenced by Vesuvius Speaks Again
In a stunning fusion of technology and classical scholarship, researchers have successfully deciphered a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum—one of the towns buried by Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. This scroll, known as PHerc. 1018, was unreadable for centuries due to its fragile, charred state. But thanks to a revolutionary imaging technique called Pulsed Thermography, the ancient ink has finally revealed its secrets.
What the Scroll Reveals...
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