Konstantin SmoliyPhilosophy is warIn Plato’s ideal state, philosophers stand at the top of the administrative pyramid. And below them is a class of guards, warriors, obliged…Jun 14, 2022Jun 14, 2022
Konstantin SmoliySteinbeck: at the Bottom of the American DreamThe wording with which John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature is: “For his realistic and poetic gift, combined with mild…May 20, 2022May 20, 2022
Konstantin SmoliyMan and machine: in his own imageThe machines around us are changing, but the principle remains the same: a calibrated control action produces a predictable, usually useful…May 19, 2022May 19, 2022
Konstantin SmoliyInventing the SquareI often think about who invented the square and why. As an example of a brilliant and at the same time simple invention, the wheel is often…Apr 22, 2022Apr 22, 2022
Konstantin SmoliySentenced to FreedomThe Russian philosopher Vasily Rozanov wrote: “Everyone flees from freedom: workers to employment, man to office, woman to her husband…Feb 21, 2022Feb 21, 2022
Konstantin SmoliyFrom Mass Revolt to Barbarian RevoltIt has been 90 years since José Ortega y Gasset published «The Revolt of the Masses». The Spanish philosopher succeeded in subtly sensing…Feb 16, 2022Feb 16, 2022
Konstantin SmoliyThe Creative Power of EnergyEnergy never reveals itself to us in its true form, only as something else. We cannot comprehend it as such by the senses, it reveals…Feb 14, 2022Feb 14, 2022
Konstantin SmoliyChildren of Medusa: On the Sculptors of HellasPhidias, Praxiteles, Lysippus, Polycletus and a host of others… What should we liken your art of creating bodies of stone? Stopping time…Feb 14, 2022Feb 14, 2022
Konstantin SmoliyWhy the writer Henry Thoreau went to live in the woodsHenry David Thoreau’s famous book Walden, or Life in the Woods is perhaps the first detailed critique of consumer society. Although in the…Feb 7, 2022Feb 7, 2022
Konstantin SmoliyHeliogabalus Black StoneFor a century and a half people have been saying that a new Middle Ages is coming. Some with joy and impatience, others with apprehension…Feb 7, 2022Feb 7, 2022
