Tag: practical philosophy
Volunteering at a Cat Shelter (Chicago, USA)
New Acropolis Chicago in collaboration with Touched by An Animal, a local cat shelter, invited members, students and local neighbors to help the shelter with improvements needed for better care […]
Mother Earth Day 2024 – Beach clean-up (Yilan, Taiwan)
This year we celebrated Mother Earth Day together with Atyal tribe Bulau-Bulau school in Yilan county. We gathered at the beach to discuss: “What do we define as garbage and […]
How to communicate better with the people around us – Navigating our era’s difficult waters (Practical philosophy series) – Philosophical workshop (Taipei, Taiwan)
On our 3rd workshop “Navigating our era’s difficult waters” we discussed when communication is poor, what can we do. Doesn’t it happen because the other party is annoying? Because he/she […]
Changing postponing into proactiveness – Navigating our era’s difficult waters (Practical philosophy series) – Philosophical workshop (Taipei, Taiwan)
On our 2nd workshop “Navigating our era’s difficult waters” we discussed our tendency of postponing things in life. We searched for the deeper root of why we postpone and what […]
Get your attention back! – seminar on the occasion of World Philosophy Day (Buda, Hungary)
At the Buda Centre of New Acropolis Hungary, a seminar on developing the ability to focus was organized under the title Get Your Attention Back. In the introduction the speaker […]
To see clearly in the sea of information – Navigating our era’s difficult waters (Practical philosophy series) – Philosophical workshop (Taipei, Taiwan)
We opened our new series “Navigating our era’s difficult waters” with a workshop that allowed us to practice the difference between knowledge (information/data) and wisdom (experience). In our current overwhelming […]
World Philosophy Day 2023 (Taipei, Taiwan)
We celebrated the World Philosophy Day of 2023 by organizing a philosophical workshop held and planned by New Acropolis school members. We held different activities under the topic of “How […]
Sattva – The Middle Way (Practical philosophy series) – Philosophical workshop (Taipei, Taiwan)
On our third “practical philosophy” series, we learned and experienced the concept of “The Middle Way” – Not too much, and not too little, but also not mediocrity… Although we […]
Karma (Practical philosophy series) – Philosophical workshop (Taipei, Taiwan)
We had a practical experience and discussion about the concept of ‘Karma’ as the law of action. We discovered the optimistic approach which states that our future is build by […]
Allegory of the cave (Practical philosophy series) – Philosophical workshop (Taipei, Taiwan)
Philosophy is practical, and so we started our new series with Plato’s Allegory of the cave. We discovered who is the philosopher inside of us, what are the signs that […]
