"Providing a multifaceted view of modern Finland, this book describes its history, culture, language, geography, natural history and the mythology of early peoples. Topics include Fenno-Scandia inhabi
Writing is unanimously regarded as a marker of civilization in the sense of ‘civilization as high culture’. This insight has never been seriously questioned. What makes writing a marker of civilizatio
Plato is one of the most influential philosophers of all time. He decisively shaped the profile and canon of western philosophy. Criticism of what has become known as Platonism has been continuously n
This study documents various historical instances in the development of the concept «Common Good». The author reflects about Plato's theory of Forms, which is infused with the idea of good, as the fir
While the origins of the relationship between language and politics might seem an opaque aspect of prehistory, Haarmann (a linguist and cultural scientist currently serving as the vice-president of th
"Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilization, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of
Nothing annoyed the peddlers of pure reason, aka the representatives of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, more than the survival of myths--in this case Greek myths--which they viewed as illustrating c
