The ideal of the renaissance and the contemporary one

The ideal of the renaissance was to be polymath, to learn from the world in all its aspects, and to enjoy it in the same way: to make music, to make poetry, to make mathematics, to make philosophy, all during the same life. The contemporary ideal of having money, of being financially independent, of drinking alcohol, of having a monotonous job, of wasting time doing silly things because one has not energy anymore because the work or the studies – which one does only to be able to obtain a job and money afterwards – have taken all energy away, is it better? Do you think we are better now?!

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The ex-president has a new little girlfriend On defining felicity in terms of something else Thou that never hadst the trust The daring poulterer 1 A Friday in Leuven The anarchy is the only democracy A better world is inconceivable if equality is also inconceivable