Category: Philosophy
Philosophy Battles (Athens, Greece)
Four days and eight philosophers. In the context of the Philosophy Battles event held at New Acropolis Athens, each night, two philosophers -apparently contradictory- came to life to talk to […]
World Philosophy Day, Lectio Magistralis on Love by Prof. Umberto Curi (Syracuse, Italy)
New Acropolis Syracuse celebrated World Philosophy Day with a Lectio Magistralis presented by Umberto Curi, philosopher and university professor. This year the theme was Love as Renaissance. Professor Curi talked about the […]
Lecture: ‘Get to know the Philosophers: An evening with Pythagoras’ (Boston, USA)
The wisdom of Pythagoras on virtue and happiness was presented at New Acropolis Boston first as a talk and then as a short humoristic skit available on YouTube for anyone […]
Annual Plato Reading Day (Miami, USA)
New Acropolis of Miami held their 6th Annual Plato Reading Day which brought people together to honor the great philosopher. Participants read dialogues, thought about them and discussed their perspectives, and […]
New Acropolis invited Victoria Camps on occasion of World Philosophy Day (Barcelona, Spain)
Under the motto ‘Myths and tales as transmitters of philosophical values’, the recent World Philosophy Days counted with the presentation by Dr. Victoria Camps. Victoria Camps, philosopher, writer and professor […]
World Philosophy Day (London, UK)
To celebrate World Philosophy Day, on November 19th, New Acropolis London offered an evening of short presentations, interspersed with food and conversation, on the theme ‘Life lessons from the great philosophers’. […]
Lecture ‘How to deal with aging and death?’ (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)
Lecture entitled ‘How to deal with aging and death?’ at New Acropolis Florianopolis presented by Prof. Helenice Vieira Piovezan, who presented perspectives from ancient philosophy viewing aging and death as natural cycles of […]
‘Images for Thinking 2015’ photo contest (El Salvador)
In the framework of World Philosophy Day 2015 , New Acropolis El Salvador launched the tenth edition of Images for Thinking photo contest, which this time has received nearly a […]
Philosophers’ Night (Györ, Hungary)
New Acropolis participated in the traditional Philosophers’ Night, presenting philosophy as a way of life through different interactive activities. The night began with perspectives on life, death and love by two […]
Life with philosophical meaning (Samara, Central Russia)
Probably every one of us at some moment in life has asked the questions Why am I here?, What should I do?, What is the meaning of life?. ‘Life with Meaning’ […]
