Andrii Baumeister

The history of any nation is based on certain ideas. It is historians and poets who invented the Roman idea. Livy and Virgil told in the form of a historical treatise and a poetic myth about who the Romans were and what their historical importance was. For this reason they became the creators of...

Sir Winston Churchill’s book My Early Life (1874-1904) [known in North America as “A Roving Commission (1930)”] reads that, in the spring of 1896, a 22-year-old officer of the 4th Hussars could enjoy his life preparatory to sailing for India in the autumn: “Society still...

What’s the earliest age for taking up philosophy? Philosophy knows no age or occupational restrictions. Aristotle joined Plato’s Academy at 17. Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus was almost 30 when he found his teacher Ammonius Saccas. In the 13th century, philosophy was taught at the...