Philosophy
They say that we should learn from our mistakes and thus accumulate experience. If we fail to learn from a mistake, we are likely to repeat it in the future. We need to step onto the path, and only then, by fully encountering and experiencing both expected and unexpected obstacles, can we come to know the way
Philosopher Serhii Forkosh delves into the profound aspects of acting and the process of creating a stage character. The author explores how an actor’s encounter with the character they are to portray becomes a powerful catalyst for transformation and self-discovery, inspiring them to delve deeper into their roles
Philosopher Serhii Forkosh delves into the profound aspects of acting and the process of creating a stage character. The author explores how an actor’s encounter with the character they are to portray becomes a powerful catalyst for transformation and self-discovery, inspiring them to delve deeper into their roles
On Aldous Huxley’s birthday, it’s worth remembering his warning that the currently fashionable «neurosciences» reduce the mystery of consciousness to the movement of electrons through neural networks. Huxley claimed that such attempts merely conceal a fear of the uncontrollable reality of the nature of the mind. Frightened by the monstrous events of the 20th century, humanity rushed toward the clear and rigid boundaries of positivist scientific reason
Images greet us everywhere, but they reveal their mysterious stillness only in the museum. How can we approach the embodied images in paintings without bringing something inert from our daily perception? Philosopher Serhii Forkosh believes that we need to return to the origin, to the way our gaze is structured and how seeing itself is possible. Only after such practice can we hope to reclaim a pure view of the museum’s visible world
Throughout its history, mankind has attempted to reduce all the diversity of life to some established norm once and for all. The problem is that it was the attempts to fit a person into the Procrustean framework of the norm that ended in the darkest follies
The fate, content, and even the title of the painting «The Allegory of Painting» (1666–1668) are full of mysteries. The artist did not part with this painting until the end of his life. Philosopher Serhii Forkosh is interested in the act of depicting the image and the embodiment of the figurative in general in this painting. He will try, by following the realized images of the painting, to answer the question: How is an image possible? He universalizes the artist’s allegory to the level of the metaphysics of the image
Sixty years ago, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir visited Ukraine. Today, this event is mostly forgotten. But it proves once again how bizarre threads of fate sometimes connect different cultural worlds
In February 2024, a major exhibition of Ivan Marchuk’s «The Voice of My Soul» was held in Vienna, where more than 300 canvases of the master were presented. The exhibition was also attended by philosopher Serhii Forkosh, who, inspired by what he had seen, tried to clarify for himself some of the peculiarities of Ivan Marchuk’s work, choosing the painting «Dialogue» (1990) for interpretation
Modern businessmen can learn a lot from Friedrich Nietzsche. For example, how to practice critical thinking and how to discard entrenched prejudices. Transform corporate culture and create new values.
On April 22, 1724, Immanuel Kant was born — a great philosopher with a strange biography. In the apparent lack of events in his biography, various people «read out» completely non-Kantian meanings. What can be said about a man who has never left East Prussia? It turns out you can
We know very little about the essence of weapons. The topic is complex, multidimensional, and requires fresh approaches. Philosopher Serhii Forkosh proposes to examine the genealogy of weapons through the prism of concepts such as «boundary», «territory» and «place»