“Basic psychological and
philosophical knowledge on
family education for teachers
and parents/grandparents”
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
Ορτέγκα υ Γκασσέτ
1883–1955
Adorno, Theodor W.,
1903-1969
Ορτέγκα
υ Γκασσέτ
1883–1955
Οσβαλντ Σπένγκλερ
Η ΠΑΡΑΚΜΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΥΣΗΣ 1918
Ulysses:
the prototype of western man
I would offer Descartes's First Meditation to all students of
literary art. His use of the first-person narrative brings into
play notions of time and space, creating drama.
His use of the first person introduces that other most vital,
always radical idea: the primacy of the individual
perception. A sceptical voice, the child questioning the
adult, the artist challenging convention, the individual
challenging authority; casting doubt on infallibility and
the imposition of authoritarian control. Descartes the hero.
Five hundred years later, his work is still feared and hated René Descartes, 1596 1650
by those who seek to impose tyranny.
John Searle
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 - 1951 Nicholas Humphrey 1943 - 1932 -
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell
Biology and Genetics, Dresden
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DELPHIC ORACLE
Platonic Academy (Pompei, 1st c. p.D).
WORKS
OF ART
ΕΡΓΑ ΤΕΧΝΗΣ
ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGY
In ancient Greece, Antigone is mostly related
to the myth that was told by the Ancient Greek
playwright Sophocles, although there is
reference to a different Antigone in the ancient
Greek World.
Antigone was the
daughter
of King Oedipus of
ΕΡΓΑ
ΤΕΧΝΗΣ
Thebes and Jocasta. The story says, Oedipus,
the son of Laius and Jocasta killed his father
Laius and became the king of Thebes.
Oedipus unknowingly married his own mother
Jocasta and had children by her. Thus,
Antigone was the daughter and the sister of
Oedipus
Parental Love
in Sophocles’ Antigone
Lines 500 – 700: we have
a description of Haimon’s
love to his father Creon
HAIMON:
I am your son, father. You are my
guide.
500
You make things clear for me, and I
obey you.
No marriage means more to me
than your continuing wisdom.
Homer the name traditionally assigned to
the reputed author of the Iliad and the
Odyssey, the two major epics of Greek
antiquity. Nothing is known about Homer as
an individual. In fact, the question of
whether a single person can be said to be
responsible for the creation of the two epics
is still controversial. However, linguistic and
historical evidence allows the assumption
that the poems were composed in the
Greek settlements on the west coast of Asia
Minor sometime in the 9th century BC.
Electra was the daughter of
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the
king and queen of Mycenae. When
Electra's father returned from the
Trojan war, her mother,
Clytemnestra and her lover,
Aegisthus killed him. They also
killed Cassandra, a concubine of
Agamemnon from the Trojan war …
Homer
In the Homeric story, Orestes was a
member of the doomed house of Atreus
which is descended from Tantalus and
Niobe. Orestes was absent from
Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon,
returned from the Trojan War with the
Trojan princess Cassandra as his
concubine, and thus not present for
Agamemnon's murder by his wife
Clytemnestra's lover, Aegisthus. Seven
years later, Orestes returned from Athens
and avenged his father's death by slaying
both Aegisthus and his own mother
Clytemnestra.
In the Odyssey, Orestes is held up as a
favorable example to Telemachus, whose
mother Penelope is plagued by suitors.
Pindar
According to Pindar, the young Orestes was
saved by his nurse Arsinoe (Laodamia) or his
sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the
country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him. In
the familiar theme of the hero's early eclipse and
exile, he escaped to Phanote on Mount
Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of
him. In his twentieth year, he was urged by
Electra to return home and avenge his father's
death. He returned home along with his friend
Pylades, Strophius's son.
In Aeschylus's Eumenides, Orestes goes mad after the
deed and is pursued by the Erinyes, whose duty it is to
punish any violation of the ties of family piety. He takes
refuge in the temple at Delphi; but, even though Apollo
had ordered him to do the deed, he is powerless to
protect Orestes from the consequences. At last Athena
receives him on the acropolis of Athens and arranges a
formal trial of the case before twelve judges, including
herself. The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads the
orders of Apollo. Athena votes last announcing that she
is for acquittal; then the votes are counted and the result
is a tie, resulting in an acquittal according to the rules
previously stipulated by Athena. The Erinyes are
propitiated by a new ritual, in which they are worshipped
as "Semnai Theai", "Venerable Ones", and Orestes
dedicates an altar to Athena Areia.
Gorgon. Side A from an Attic black-figure neck-amphora,
ca. 520–510 BC.
Gorgon_Louvre_F230
An archaic Gorgon (around 580 BC), as depicted on a pediment from the temple of
Artemis in Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
Gorgons. Attic black-figure lekythos, ca. 530 BC.
Who or what should benefit from
education ?
what does one mean by benefits?
Who is benefiting?
Whose benefits should we foremost be
concerned with?