Culture and humanity

 "The flowers" by Valentin Massov

The term "culture," originally meant the cultivation of the soul or mind, and it was the true meaning of this word. Now, we lost it. What is more,  we lost the consept of the soul. A modern man lives without the soul. He lives like an animal, in a one day. Loss of culture will be mean loss of the human race, because culture is that distinguish us from the beasts. If we don't remember about our soul, we will lose our civilization.

Anamnesis

"Anamnesis" by Olga Romanova

I like Socrates' theory of anamnesis. Socrates suggests that the soul is immortal, and repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually in the soul from eternity, but each time the soul is incarnated its knowledge is forgotten in the shock of birth. What one perceives to be learning, then, is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. Once it has been brought back it is true belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge by understanding.