FRIENDS OF GREEK LETTERS AND ARTS FOR WELFARE AND EXCELLENCE
STEGI OF WELFARE AND EXCELLENCE
Ancient Greek Philosophy embraces all its pieces, scattered throughout centuries and places and with the help of modern science, Greek tradition and the arts, it attempts to lead the human who will choose it, through the operation of Know Thyself, to his highest potential.
When people reach their maximum potential, they are characterized by uniqueness, simplicity, self-sufficiency, justice, kindness, solidarity, joy. They see life through a “deeper visual lens” and they are in full acceptance with themselves and their environment.
We aspire for the Stegi to become the place where children and adults, by recognizing their true existence, they will celebrate the ideal of coexistence and through the we, to create “good works” that they will become a ray of Light and they will penetrate into today’s “nebulous” reality.
Meanings and Actions
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As a cycle of work comes to an end, the person who confronts their own self—who “struggles within”, as Kazantzakis describes in Askitiki, seeks a “place” to rest. To quiet the mind, to soothe the heart, and to ponder. What have I done? What have I neglected? Whom have I hurt or wronged? When did I fail to stand courageously before my own inner enemy?
“A critical, violent moment is our historical era, one world is crumbling, another has not yet been born. Our era is not a moment of balance, when kindness, compromise, peace, love would be fruitful virtues. We no longer fit into the old virtues and hopes, the old theories and actions” (Nikos Kazantzakis, Salvatores Dei, 1927).
The mental Kallos (~Beauty) is visible in the sensible world, through the physical eyes, Plato states in Phaedrus (Plato, Phaedrus, 250d6-7). It can be manifested and loved.