GENESI

Convergence and trade integration between E.U. and Mediterranean countries

This article presents a statistical up-to-date analysis of market integration between Mediterranean countries and the European Union.
An assessment is proposed in order to the following main focuses: a quantitative evaluation of trade integration with EU-27 member countries; a qualitative and quantitative analysis of institutional as well as regulatory convergence; lastly, financial convergence along the guidelines provided under the Europ... Continue

Diego d’Andria

The Symbolic Representation of the Torah Scrolls in the Religion of Israel

If taken in the proper perspective, the Sefer Torah is the Jewish totem. I am not referring to the classic understanding of totem,3 but rather to a pseudo-totem.4 In the cultures of primitive tribes the totem5 is related to an animal or vegetable species, and occasionally (as in the case of the Torah) to an object that is made, produced, or manufactured. In some societies a totem is a deity (though not in Judaism or as manifested through the Sef... Continue

Simcha Fishbane

Titus Lucretius Carus

We all come from heavens seed, and we all have the same father, the sky - from which falls liquid drops that nourish the mother soul, the Earth, that in receiving the drops get fertilized and produces corpulent harvests and fertile plants, men and all sort of wild beasts. Ultimately it provides food for all of them, allowing them to lead a peaceful life and spread their progeny.
Therefore Earth justly deserves the attribute ... Continue

The cosmic meaning of creation

Book of healing

In the name of God, the Most Merciful. Praise God, the Lord of the Worlds.
And may His blessing be upon the Prophet, the Chosen, Muhammad, and upon the noble members of His family.
Thirteenth part (fann) of the Book of Healing on divine things.
First treatise in eight sections First section Where we begin to recreate the subject of philosophy first, to disclose its formation as science.
After that, with God... Continue

Avicenna

Mishneh Torah

CHAPTER ONE
“The concept of God”

The essential basis and foundation of every knowledge is being aware of the existence of a primary Being from whom every other being draws his existence, and knowing that all that exists in the sky, on earth and in between earth and sky is a derivation of the primary Being.
If we assumed that this primary being didn... Continue

Maimonides

The first engine is the intellect

The first engine is the intellect XXII. Since matter is the cause of multiplicity and division, while shape is the basis for unity, we can therefore state that the divinity radiance - the spirit - is only one, and that its action is only one (because from one, only one can derivate).
But since the spirit is a principle that operates in the material and extended universe, that soul that used to be one in the unity and entire in the who... Continue

Giordano Bruno

“We are all hit by the same revenge and we are all expiating the same crime”

Dear Jablum, inform the Jews in Palestine that no group of people is able to understand their suffering and relate to their misfortune better then the Italian exiles.
Us: our homeland has been invaded and stolen, after 50 years of redevelopment achieved through efforts and great sacrifices.
Them: who have been, for centuries, the legendary stateless people, and are trying to rebuild their city on the holy rivers of their ancestors.... Continue

Filippo Turati

United States of Europe: everything else is a catastrophe

The one and only thing that can save us is a European conscience redemption movement. Social and political redemption; a league of European revolutionaries, a challenge for practical idealists to channel this passion, so that it will express the confused aspirations of millions of people with a simple and human language.
Expressing these aspirations does not require a genius mind. Wilson himself was not a genius. Still, in 1917 and 19... Continue

Carlo Rosselli

IDENTITIES AND CONFLICTS

The presence of multiple identities on a geographical area automatically puts them in conflict as the general result of human distrust in what is “different” that pervades most of individuals: the conflict can be halted at a phase of “dislike” and “forced tolerance” there where there is a more or less equitable distribution and access to resources, both natural and energy ones, and socio-political, economic and employment ones7, but it can also degenerate into open and violent confrontation be...Continue

Raffaele Petroni

Self-defence at the trial for “crime defence”

Lorenzo Milani Comparetti (1923-1967) was born in Florence in 1923. His family whose origins were partly Jewish, belonged to the upper middle class and while his culture was laic and Enlightenment oriented.
In 1933, during the Nazi regime, his father Albano, an industrial manager, together with his mother Alice Weiss, worrying about their future, decided to get married and to baptize their children, following the catholic rite.
Du...Continue

Don Lorenzo Milani

Interview with Giorgio Galli
Middle East, Globalization, Muticultural Society The Islamic World’s democratic seeds

Q. Professor Galli, the Islamic world’s diverse panorama makes it impossible to gather all of its very different aspects within a single box.
It is in fact hard to associate Iranian integralism, moderate Jordan, Erdogan’s conservative Turkey, and hot Indonesia, hosting the planet’s largest Muslim population. In this context, how does religion influence politics? And if we think of Palestine, orphan child of Araf...Continue

Andrè Chouraqui (1917 - 2007)
A citizen of three cultures

The Hebrew language has no word for the human face, but only for human faces: the word panim (face) exists only in its plural form.
Chouraqui is a good example of this linguistic truth: he is a multifaced man, he is European, African, and Asian, and he is also a citizen of three cultures; Jewish, Latin-Greek and Arab. His three names, Natan André Chouraqui, indicate the giver and the given (in Hebrew), the man (in Greek) and the...Continue

Marco Morselli

Political psychology and the Mediterranean Crisis

In the following article I would like to highlight the big contribution that my humanistic existential-oriented, political psychology could provide to the understanding and solving of the Mediterranean Crisis, and in overcoming the dispute between the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) overlooking the Mediterranean sea.
Although each of these religions’ ecclesiastic hierarchies try to deny that this disp...Continue

Luigi De Marchi

The experience and courage of Viktor E. Frankl. How to give our lives a meaning, how to not let pain take over

Through the present contribution, I would like to remember the experience of a man who survived the horrors of the Shoah, which left him with the awareness of the vocation that had accompanied his early youth: the vocation to help others and to find a meaning in their lives, even in the most extreme experiences. This man is Viktor E. Frankl.
Neurologist and psychiatrist of Jewish descent, with a strong interest for psychology, Frankl w...Continue

Alba Alongi

Interview with Marco Ricceri
Alexandria, Egypt, the City of Ipatia and Eratosthenes, hosts the new “Euro.Med.Mari.Centre”

“This project, approved by the European Commission and financed by the European program ‘Tempus media’ (2005-2007), involves the creation of an authentic Educational Center for Maritime Transport and Ground Logistics. The idea is to create a Specialization School for Postgraduate Studies, offering three-year courses -and, in the future, shorter undergraduate courses-, with the aim of training the maritime workers of the future. This is very important, as the Mediterranean sea is the center of an important economic flow from the East (today, the Port Said area ...Continue

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