Gavril Nikolaev 
Human civilization is an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our own mortality. That’s what American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker argued in his Pulitzer-winning book “The Denial of Death.” But unlike our denial of death, our consciousness of death is a powerful life-affirming force that can help us change the way we live … Read more
Robert Frost (March 26, 1874–January 29, 1963) is perhaps one of the few American poets who needs no introduction. Author of many enduring and iconic poems in American letters, he continues to enrich and ennoble our literary lives. But few of us know that behind the public persona of a celebrated poet and winner of … Read more
. For a very long time, I believed that I should know a little bit about everything. Especially when it came to running this blog. All the courses and guides told me to wear several hats to be successful. And I tried. Occasionally, being a content writer, or a graphic designer, or a web developer … Read more
. We already know that Aristotle defined a happy life as a good life made perfect by the possession of all good things, such as health, wealth, friendship, knowledge, virtue. “In order to come into possession of all good things it is necessary to have a right ordering of the different goods,” Mortimer Adler (December … Read more