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Bertoldo

['Member']Joined: December 25, 2020 at 01:32Last active: November 13, 2021 at 00:165 discussions26 comments
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Bio

An orthodox philosopher.

Favourite Philosopher

Saint Justin, the Philosopher; Saint Isaac, the Syrian; Saint Justin Popovich; Aristotle; Ivan Kireevsky; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Aleksei Khomiakov.

Favourite Quotations

"To believe is to receive from the heart the same evidence that God Himself gave His Son." — I. Kireevsky.

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." — B. Pascal.

Discussions (5)

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In: Existentialism seems illogical to me.  — view comment
Well, that's probably the main thing within your point: existentialist philosophy actually denies logical necessity and the Kantian-Hegelian dominatio...
August 18, 2021 at 01:22
In: Dostoevsky's Philosophy is inherently religious.  — view comment
Certainly. I agree with almost everything. The only thing is that he should, in fact, be considered a philosopher. Of course he surpasses philosophy w...
May 13, 2021 at 19:32
In: Dostoevsky's Philosophy is inherently religious.  — view comment
Indeed, I actually agree with everything. The only thing about dogmatism is that his resolution in his later works can be reduced to an Orthodox dogma...
May 13, 2021 at 01:19
In: Dostoevsky's Philosophy is inherently religious.  — view comment
We are in absolute accordance when it comes to it. Further, his philosophy is a proto-existentialist one, and we may consider the general understandin...
May 12, 2021 at 15:36
In: Dostoevsky's Philosophy is inherently religious.  — view comment
Neither and both. The antinomical nature of man — exposed in the entire work — claims that resolution which I stated, that is evident in his later wor...
May 12, 2021 at 01:31
In: Dostoevsky's Philosophy is inherently religious.  — view comment
Well, you have a good point when it comes to the interpretation of this basal work, indeed. We agree, I suppose, that the relation of men with the Div...
May 12, 2021 at 01:04
In: Dostoevsky's Philosophy is inherently religious.  — view comment
The orientation of Dostoevsky's absolute rupture with his rebellious and earlier convictions, that culminated in his work Notes from the Underground, ...
May 12, 2021 at 00:02
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
Hello, mate! Good to see recommendations, thank you so much. I'll leave some works here, just to make sure that someday you can learn at least somethi...
January 02, 2021 at 12:42
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
I will certainly try to go deeper in his works. Personally, what I consider to know of Schmitt's philosophy is kinda precarious. By the way, thank you...
December 30, 2020 at 02:08
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
Mussolini lost all the Italian history by doing this, personally speaking. He wrote in Ceneri e Braci on Il Popolo d'Italia about the Italian heroism,...
December 30, 2020 at 01:52
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
Lmao, Marinetti was kinda crazy, certainly, mate. Did you know that even in the PNF (Partito Nazionale Fascista) he was not taken seriously?
December 30, 2020 at 01:44
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
I'll certainly send you a message, then you can present me some works, I would appreciate it! Integralism seems quite interesting.
December 30, 2020 at 01:38
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
I got your point, and I'm not defending the fascist philosophical foundation, I'm just exposing it in order to make some specific things clear. There ...
December 30, 2020 at 01:35
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
You probably know Italo Balbo. He composed the Quadrumvirato fascista, and after a while he became the leader of African colonies; he were the first o...
December 30, 2020 at 01:18
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
Hello. Germans had a profound sense of race as being inseparable of the concept of Volk, that is "The people", as well as "Nation" and "Race". Italian...
December 30, 2020 at 01:06
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
Integralists from Brazil or Portugal? By the way, it is cool to know that you've read these fascist works.
December 30, 2020 at 00:44
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
I don't think I have sufficient writing skills in order to develop some kind of summary or anything like this. But anyways, as it is not clear what ex...
December 30, 2020 at 00:37
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
I read "Political Theology" some time ago, but I believe that Schmitt did not synthesize the very foundations of Italian Fascism, and I think it is cl...
December 29, 2020 at 23:38
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
I tend to believe that if we wanna discuss Plato's philosophy, would be truly good to know at least some of his works. So, yep. Also, I do not want to...
December 29, 2020 at 23:32
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
Understandable. So, summarizing, you did not read anything that I mentioned. :smile:
December 29, 2020 at 23:25
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
Oh, come on, why would I waste my time with this?
December 29, 2020 at 23:18
In: Generic and Unfounded Opinions on Fascism  — view comment
This is unironically what I hear every time someone tries to define what Fascism is without really reading anything at all. I mean, come on, it is not...
December 29, 2020 at 21:04
In: The Birth of Dostoevsky's Philosophy  — view comment
Indeed, I can cite innumerable intellectuals who fit this description...
December 29, 2020 at 17:36
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
This year I read 45 books. It is not the best quantity, but anyways, it is sufficiently good. The last one was an essay of Ivan Kireevsky, an orthodox...
December 28, 2020 at 15:15
In: The Birth of Dostoevsky's Philosophy  — view comment
Definitely. And it is sad how other Russian existentialists really approximated to Dostoevsky's works were miserably ignored, like Berdyaev and Shesto...
December 27, 2020 at 09:00
In: The Birth of Dostoevsky's Philosophy  — view comment
Indeed, he's really dense. And many thanks for the compliment!
December 25, 2020 at 16:09
In: Making sense of language when talking about God  — view comment
The orthodox christian tradition embraces (at least partially) this view. Saint Dionysius, for example, states that we can't try to limit God with con...
December 25, 2020 at 03:03
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