Philosophica quotes

Philosophy is the study of death ... The Philosopher writes when he is in rest ... (Plato)
One day he was reviled, he tried to slip away; the other pursued him, asking, "Why do you run away?" "Because," said he, "as it is your privilege to use foul language, so it is my privilege not to listen." (Aristippus 435-350 B.C)

Heraiscos was a philosopher that he could distinguish the dead from the living statues with a self-instructive method. As soon as he was coming in contact with a statue, a strucking feeling in his heart were happening from the deism, and sprang the soul and his body as if it was occupied by the god. If it didn't become such something, inanimate was that statue and without divine inspiration. ( SUIDAE LEXIKON)

Timon (5th B.C) was Athenian affluent citizen, which became famous for his misanthropy. Ancient writers reports him as example of misanthropy Ploutarhos reports. When Timon were presented in the “church of municipality” and after he went up in the step, he said in the amazed Athenians: "Men  Athenians, you know that I have a property in the mountain of Hymettus and that in this exists a fig tree, by which many until were now hunged. Because therefore, I intend to build a hut and I decide to cut the tree, I want to announce to you, in order to hurry to hung, those from you they want ". The subject of Timon and his misanthropy becomes a reason and in Lucianos that offends one more time the boiling hot problem of wealth, poverty and human dignity. Source: (in Greek) Wikipedia 

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Diogenes and Alexander

Epimenedes Paradox

Plato's cave 

Ancient Theories about the Soul

Extended introduction about the ancient Greek theories for the soul.

Lorenz, Hendrik, "Ancient Theories of Soul", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Ancient theories about the Soul

Shields, Christopher, "Aristotle's Psychology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Aristotle's Psychology

Elgin Marbles

Return the stolen Marbles to Parthenon, 

Acropolis of Athens, Greece

Elgin Marbles

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The official Greek position

Carl Sagan about Ionian Philosophy

How would the world be if it had prevailed Ionian Philosophy (Video)

Pre-Socratic Philosophy

"The start of Hawking"

I read the Hawking’s book "The chronicle of time. From the big explosion to the black holes. [Katoptro, 1998, p. 31, in Greek] "... that the Greeks spoke for destructions or floods that bring back the man in the beginning." (this is a platonic view) while continuously Hawking reports " that the questions for whether the Universe had a beginning in the time and if is limited in space, it had been examined by Kant in 1781 A.C.! "This state brought to me rage and laughter together, as himself also saying in other page (or in the book’s start), he did not write in this book neither a equation because it would not sell.
Because as we see he rewrites history and as reports in the Sagan’s import about the book, "the Hawking, in ' 80s proposed a quantum theory for the creation of Universe, the theory of wavefunction of the Universe with the basic idea: the marginal conditions of Universe are that it does not have limits "! that also is not by no means new, but as we know it is an anachronism over 2500 years, taken from Aristotle.I believe that in philosophy, monstrous thinks should at least conceivable must rejected, irrelevantly the size of this teacher, that perhaps he does not know elementary history or has probably forgotten or (improbable) fell in the fallacy from of Kant’s writes. For example Aristotle believed that the person is the top wise from all the animals because of the hands. He wanted thus to stress the growth of  intellectuality with the growth of this faculty. Thε idea it is reformulated as "new" by Kant, saying that the growth of the man’s natural origins that is to say speech and culture, they are connected with the growth of technical culture and are found in the operation of human hand, who characterizes the person as rational animal. [ Th. Veikos. Presocratics, D', Greek Letters, 1995. ] 
You may forgive me if I made you tired, but as romantic and fervent supporter of the ancient Greek philosophy, in generally I mast react. 
Video , 52 min
Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988)

The Cross and the Grave

Source: Wikipedia
Marble cross from Knossos, Crete, Greece dated to 1600 BC found by Evans

St. Maximus the Confessor

66. The mystery of incarnation of Logos contains the meaning all the enigmatic and symbolic reasons of Writing, as well as the knowledge of all the visible [ and the conceivable ] creations.

Whoever has comprehended the mystery of cross and burial, he comprehends also the reasons that they were mentioned before.

And whoever has initiated in the expressionless force of Resurrection, he comprehended the aim for which initially the God created everything.

67. All the visible realities need the cross, that is to say the situation in which they are broken away from things that act upon in this realities via the sense.

The conceivable again all things, have need from the burial. the total immobility that is to say of whatever acts upon in them mentally. Because when with the relation is killed also every natural energy and movement in regard to all things, then the reason, remaining alone with itself, it is revealed as resurrected by the deads, encompassing in it all that are emanated from him, without no one generally thing has with him the familiarity of natural relation. Because at charm becomes the salvation saved and no by nature (Ef. 2, 5). 
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Source : Patristic Texts 
(in Greek)

One God

Who said in ancient Greece believed in many gods? The allegorical significance of Twelve Gods Greek faith had already begun to emerge from the philosophical origins and writing, the Presocratic philosophers who define the gods's analogy with the four natural elements (fire, air, earth, water), for example Hera with air or Zeus with fire.
Aristotle saying and complained for Xenophanes (the teacher of Parmenides), that he is not clarified if this One God who proclaim is immaterial (such as the God of Parmenides) or material (such as the God of Melissos), and attaches to him that "with the eye pointing to the whole Heaven (Universe) Xenophanes says that the One is God." For Xenophanes has been stating that he was the first to introduce the true monotheism that was ever on earth (according to Wilamowitz).

Influenced by Xenophanes, Plato in Timaeus scripture explains the creation of the one Cosmos (Universe) from the Father, the perfect one God. During the following centuries the Greek, the Christians or the medieval or Arab philosophers mentioned the last Plato's writing to consolidate the philosophy of religion. The uniqueness and existence of God accepted by Aristotle or downstream fans even beyond the Middle Ages.
The Platonist divine Plutarch, influenced by the Pythagorean philosophy, quotes the opinion of his teacher Ammonius for the one God, in "declaring the “E” at Delphi." This textbook is perhaps from the most important of which relied many Theologists after Plato's "Timaius", perhaps St. Augustine as-well. According to "E" explaination at Delphi (XVII) entrance meaning "only you exists", like an acceptance to One God that is the only certain existing entity, simple and autonomous, one eternal and perfect, because everything else is subject to birth and decay as the time itself , all represent this World.
But this World should be perfect because if it were not, then the creator would also not be perfect hence would not be God as not perfect. However the creator is one or many? He should be one because if they were many, they should were all perfect in order to be Gods hence identical, hence one, while if they were not identical then should be someone more perfect, hence again one perfect God while remainder as not absolutely perfect they would not be gods.

In the precedents appears as acceptance the existence of God. However is there  any proof? Aristotle gives Cosmological and teleological approach and many others also considering the God as axiomatic faith. Claiming that the creator does not exist, it should exist the comprehension of the creator in order to be true this statement, otherwise this proposition is false. However is in effect and the opposite that leads to the not existence. Therefore here we reach in the segregation of human "faith" or "glory" from the true knowledge, with the last one will be, for the same reason, one. According to Plato for something we think or dream it should be somewhere, in some place to be exists. Adding to this if it is someone’s thought could be fallacy, if it is a thought of infinite men then it can be a proof. 
But how can we understand God ? We can approach only God because of our being imperfect. Therefor our world is one, the best that God created from all His possibilities, but different from "His World" who is full from endless ideas (icons or archetypes, "ta katholou"), according to Plato. But how our one world created and what is real if everything is changing, so it is not exist? The origin is Logos, the Word or Reason or Alethea the one real truth of Parmenides, the father of Philosophy. Logos is govern everything, introduced by Herakletus and Logos became latter true in Christ, the God's humanized will in our Cosmos.
He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, according to St. Paul. (Acts 17:26, speaking to Athenians for the Unknown God).  

Death and Loss

… she loved us. She was distressed for the separation: "O! For the touch of a lost hand and the sound of one voice that still exists "…

… All the other will become earth. The love will survive from all the other things. The faith will expire and the hope will expire when the faith will be replaced by the vision and the hope from the certainty, but the love will never be expire.



Import (in Greek)

Memory of death (in Greek)

Loss (in Greek)

Death (in Greek)

Antonios Bloum Bishop of Soyroz

Suicide

Anyone know the definition of life let the states. From Homer and Presocratic Philosophy up today the inconceivable One, Being, Begin, Logos, the Father or God associated with the mystery of life. Biology has not defined what life is as well Philosophy, only recorded evidence characterizing something as living. For example, viruses are not known to be life forms, but they have some to say in the evolutionary process. Man as the most complex of all "ennoun" (with mind) being, with the right to life acquired or donated by God according to the Christian faith or by nature, has not the right also its removal. From seances we learn that men committed suicide at the last time bitterly regret but also the soul does not quiet down beyond. This worst action is not committed only to himself but to the relatives, society, country and the world as a living balanced organism. It is not considered an act of bravery but the opposite. It is an instantaneous irreversible brain nonsense. Doctors will tell us about the mystery of death and priests. Have we come face to face with this mystery? Have we participate in the miracle of birth and growth? What do we feel? Killing the self, slamming both of the eyes that  God sees through us, killing the  nature itself. Even the tiny units, the cells show greater wisdom than suiciders. Apoptotic cells die quietly without harming the surroundings and the total body, in opposite to the necrotic cell that create damage.
Democritus in a hypothetical dialogue for senses and mind says "talaina frin despite our tash pysteis lavousa upon you pay? Corpses katavlima" ie. Hassle dishonesty mind after you get the information from us, you try to put us aside? Any victory of you means your fall.
If the mind is ill, should be fed by, smelling a flower, reading, training the body, making friends with people, talking to the trees (*). If the body is sick or unable, again the mind must be fed, like believing in something strong, supernatural or perfect, loving something, because love is the last feeling that is goes away with death, if it happens ! Biologically, approaching of the loss, the body tries to coordinate and maintain only the mind, feeding it, with what it can give, especially sugars, which is making the same process at the beginning of life. The soul at the end must try, perhaps with the previous. This battle with death is certainly uneven but is still a battle of the "living" soul. Suicide is an unconditional surrender, to the ultimate enemy of life.
The way then to the "end" for you, ie the purpose is not to win but how you fight. Try to think what is the motive of someone to not commit suicide. Something to believe, hope, know or what-everything else. What is the common of all of the "hopes"? Love for loving, hoping, knowing, believing working, creating or even even hating or destroying. Love (Filotis) is the one action that creating the Universe,  according to Empedoklis (450 B.C), the same power who creates molecules in the inorganic world. Love is the ultimate, even higher from faith, for St. Paul and endless examples for this "emotion" who moves matter soul and spirit in the same way.
* In ancient Greece believed that a tree is a upside man pined to ground. Plato describe that the man's body is like the reverse of  tree (eg. the root of a tree is the man's brain).
For Reading:

Suicide in ancient Greek (in Greek)

The Stoics on Suicide (in Greek)

Answer Ag. Nicholas Velimirovich the coffeehouse owner ((in Greek)