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Estimaba Teofrasto que, el intelectual no debe tomar esposa, atendidas las intolerables molestias del matrimonio, y sus constantes sobresaltos.

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Spinoza está hoy considerado uno de los pensadores más notables de todos los tiempos, quizá el más radical y controvertido de los filósofos. Novedad editorial: "Spinoza" - Steven Nadler akal.com/libro/spinoza_…

This is Charlie Gee. He's a 23 year old British stonemason who restores cathedrals using the same tools that medieval craftsmen used 800 years ago. In 2023, he helped rebuild eight pinnacles on Cologne Cathedral's spire. It was the first restoration of its kind since World War II, when 14 Allied bombs hit the Gothic landmark and it somehow remained standing while the rest of the city was flattened... Cologne Cathedral, seen in this video, took 632 years to build. Construction began in 1248 and it was finished in 1880. To put that in perspective: it took longer to build than the United States has existed as a country. The first master builder, Master Gerhard, fell from the scaffolding in 1271, never seeing a single spire finished. Generations of stonemasons were born, worked, and died on that cathedral without seeing it completed. Then in 1473, the money ran out. Work stopped for more than 300 years, and a half-built cathedral with a wooden crane on top stood over Cologne for centuries. In 1880, their descendants finished it... and it became the tallest building on earth. The German poet Heinrich Heine was once asked why we no longer build such things. His answer may be the most precise diagnosis of the modern condition ever given: "In those days men had convictions, we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral." A civilization gives its heirs the benefit of socially accumulated knowledge. To preserve that knowledge, you have to know your history. Gothic cathedrals are history made of stone: the physical record of a people who believed in something larger than themselves and longer than a single lifetime. Charlie Gee is one of the very few young men alive who still speaks that language... If you're interested in history, I've built a community of over 50,000 members who learn about it every week through the beauty of our world. If that sounds like something you'd like to be part of, join us.

Ha fallecido el periodista y escritor Alfonso Ussía. zendalibros.com/alfonso-ussia-…