Tag: Philosophy
Earth Day Fest (Chicago, USA)
New Acropolis Chicago hosted people from the community to celebrate earth day with two activities: A lecture about the things that a tree can teach us and a hands-on workshop […]
Lecture: “Light on the Path” by Mabel Collins (Famalicão, Portugal)
New Acropolis offered a lecture on the work Light on the Path by Mabel Collins, from the perspective of Jorge Angel Livraga, founder and first director of the International […]
Talk: Viktor Frankl on our Search for Meaning (London, UK)
Viktor Frankl was a world-famous psychologist and concentration camp survivor who realised that what gives human beings the will to live, even in the most difficult circumstances, is a sense […]
Film discussion: “Don’t Look Up” (NÃO OLHEM PARA CIMA) (Portugal)
New Acropolis held a discussion on the film “Don’t Look Up” (“Não Olhem para Cima”), one of the most talked about films in recent times. Five speakers from different Centres […]
Public Lecture: Does man truly evolve? (Belgrade, Serbia)
Looking at countless troubles that keep befalling the world it is logical for a question to arise: if evolution exists, why does the state of the world only worsen? Exactly […]
Women in Philosophy – online panel for Women’s History Month (USA/Canada)
New Acropolis schools in Chicago, Boston, and Canada, celebrated Women’s History Month, honoring women philosophers across times and nations. More than 70 people participated in this online panel, in which […]
“Camões and Dante, faithful to love and rebirth”. (Oeiras-Cascais, Portugal)
Organized by New Acropolis Oeiras-Cascais, the Jaime Cortesão History Center and the Amigos do Parque dos Poetas association, and in commemoration of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante […]
Philosophy Meeting: “Allegory of the Cave”. (Braga, Portugal)
New Acropolis held a Philosophy Meeting, in its new facilities in Braga, covering the origins of philosophy with Plato and the theme “Allegory of the Cave: Being authentic in a […]
Exhibition and lecture: “Jorge Angel Livraga, the philosopher of Concord” (Lisbon, Portugal)
New Acropolis celebrated World Philosophy Day with a special activity, the exhibition entitled “Jorge Angel Livraga, the philosopher of Concord”, where the multiple facets that he developed throughout his life […]
Practical philosophy workshops inspired by the Stoics (Marseille, France)
The New Acropolis center in Marseille honored the practices of Stoic philosophy. In Athens, Zeno of Citium gave his classes under a colonnade of the Agora called the “Painted Portico” […]
