Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

The destinies of the West during the Middle Ages were partly determined by the Arab conquest which, extending from India to Spain and advancing to the south of Italy and the Greek islands, formed a sort of screen between Europe … Read More

The twelfth century is a century of ardent and varied thought, tumultuous and confused too: on the one hand a need for systematization and unity which gives birth to these kinds of theological encyclopedias which are the books of the … Read More

We had to wait until the end of the 11th century to see, in the West, a real resumption of intellectual activity: not that this intermediate period was empty or unimportant. It is found everywhere, and in monasteries and in … Read More

Around the 5th century, the unity of Mediterranean civilization was broken at the same time as political unity. With the destruction of cities which marked the invasion of the Barbarians throughout the West, the traditional centers of culture disappeared; with … Read More

The security team at IBM Trusteer realized a warning about a security breach through a piece of malware, PixPirate. PixPirate is a new and sophisticated Android banking Trojan that has been targeting users in Brazil and other Latin American countries … Read More

Neoplatonism is essentially, as we have already seen, a method for accessing an intelligible reality and a construction or description of this reality. The biggest mistake we could make is to believe that this reality has the essential function of … Read More

Scientific disciplines (also called ”branches of science”, “sciences” or “fields of science”) are subdivisions of science and branches of knowledge that use a rigorous and systematic method to study a particular area of knowledge. Scientific disciplines are characterized by the … Read More

Nothing is more confused than the history of intellectual thought in the first two centuries of our era; these two centuries saw the last brilliance of the great post-Aristotelian dogmatisms shine with Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, then disappear. Conversely, … Read More

What will happen when operators respectively placed at 0 and at A want to measure the speed of light by noting, on the clocks tuned together which are at these two points, the moment of departure, the moment of arrival, … Read More

The scholars who succeeded Chrysippus – during the 2nd century until Panetius, from 204 to 129 – already show us a certain change in Stoic thought and a relaxation of dogmatism. Sextus says, without specifying further, that the new Stoics … Read More

About the analogy between the epistemological and methodological aspects of the activity of intelligence agencies and some scientific disciplines, advocating for a more scientific approach to the process of collecting and analyzing information within the intelligence cycle. I assert that … Read More

It is impossible to better grasp the currents of ideas which agitated minds towards the middle of the second century than in the little treatise On the Unreasonable Contempt for Popular Opinions by Polystratus (1) who succeeded Hermarqus at the … Read More