Let us Begin with a Story…

Once upon a time, a man was sitting near the sea. Watching the still water while feeling the afternoon breeze, he felt relaxed as he was looking at the stars showing up in the sky. Closing his eyes. Doing nothing. Thinking of nothing. Weird. He could feel it now. There was never a time when he understood more of the cosmos than that exact moment where he understood nothing…

Were you ever the hero of that story?

If the above makes no sense for you, just leave. If it does, move on and read more below to learn about Harmonia Philosophica and the way it sees the things we do not see. Chances are, you will find something that resonates with your feeling about how we should not think about the cosmos…

About Harmonia Philosophica

Harmonia Philosophica is a non-commercial educational philosophy portal promoting irrationality, intuition and non-thinking as a way to solve the great metaphysical mysteries of the cosmos.

Its Chief Editor is Spiros Kakos, who has been acting as its Editor in Chief from its inception until now.

The goal of Harmonia Philosophica is to show that dogmatism, under any form, is wrong. And it is important to note that even though dogmatism had for a long time been associated with religion, things have drastically changed in the last centuries. Nowadays science has replaced religion in the throne of doctrinaire thinking and the poison of various dogmas (like materialism) has dominated human intellect to a great extent. Dogmatism in science – which holds the throne of “thinking” in modern West – is something we should all worry about.

This is not being against science per se though, since we must always remember that true science embraces all views and cultivates free thinking. Harmonia Philosophica is about merging various views and the tool for this merging of thoughts is an inherently ‘irrational’ way of non-thinking – a way of thinking that is against the norms that have prevailed in the western civilization for centuries now. In this portal one can read how separate opinions on crucial philosophical matters can be merged into one single “truth”, if such thing even exists, within a purely ‘irrational’ context that the first thinkers used to utilize but that we have now forgotten. The point of every philosophy entry within the Harmonia Philosophica philosophy program is to illustrate that one-way thinking is never correct; most of the times a combination of science and religion, measurements and theoretical thinking, logic and pure intuition, thinking and non-thinking is required to draw a conclusion.

The world is inherently irrational. Only by embracing that can we ever understand what we cannot understand. If logic is based on axioms, then we must be irrational and forget those axioms if we wish to be logical without any limiting conditions.

About the deeper essence of Harmonia Philosophica

Harmonica Philosophica is a philosophical program pursuing irrationality as a means to reach logic, non-thinking as a way to think and non-knowledge as the only knowledge that can be attained. For logic does not have any meaning, besides the meaning we choose to give to it based on our irrational beliefs. Harmonica Philosophica is a way of thinking that tries to consolidate intuition and non-thinking so as to solve the great philosophical and theological problems thinking cannot solve. For there is no way to solve these problems besides accepting that they cannot be solved. Harmonia Philosophica is about letting go and accepting the cosmos instead of trying to analyze and understand it. For only through acceptance and humbleness can one be part of the cosmos instead of its destroyer. Only by being irrational can we ever be logical. And as Impresionists once upon a time tried to forget how to paint in order to paint, we must try to forget how to think in order to really think…

Harmonia Philosophica started one noon at a call beach at Kithira. Where the idea of wholeness came to me. A wholeness which is closely related to emptiness. For the only way to bring the pieces of the cosmos together is to know that there are no pieces in the first place. As Godel sought completeness through incompleteness, as Shelton sought logic through irrationality, as Christianity seeks life through death, as Pythagoras told everything through silence, as Jung expressed his soul through what cannot be expressed, Harmonia Philosophica promotes philosophical knowledge through non-knowledge and philosophical thinking through non-thinking. The articles here should not be read, but mostly sensed. It is what is not written explicitly which conveys the message you seek. And I know you do seek it because you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t. It takes courage to unlearn what you have learnt. I personally do not have the courage to do that. But I can offer hints on the path which I feel is right. This is is dark and will often look okay I of it is the wrong path, as Jung sensed during his own quest of self awareness. Stop seeing if you want to see. Stop thinking if you wish to think. And in the midst of the cosmos, you will suddenly feel alone… But don’t be afraid… As Rilke over said, the purpose of life is to be defeated by greater things…

Harmonia Philosophica has for a long time been in the edge of modern philosophy. It has dealt with numerous problems and suggested innovative answers. With a full range of philosophy articles, including but not limited to…

…in depth articles like “Religion and Science Unification – The path towards Religional Science” or “The Limits of Science“,

…innovative notions like the ‘Harmonia Philosophica‘ main thesis,

…provocative ideas like “Why Medicine is Not a pro-Science argument” or “Happy new year, with disease and misery!“,

…controversial conclusions like “Why we need more bullfights!“,

…weird thoughts like “The need for non-Thinking“,

…mind-bending topics like “DIVISION BY ZERO (1/0 = One)” or “What IS a particle? A surprisingly difficult question…“,

…poetic posts like “The value of Silence“, “Heidegger, σκόλοπες and the road to accepting non-thinking…“,

…science philosophy topics like “Science the New Religion: The NSF example“,

…hallucination-destructive reminders like “Are we free to choose haircut?“,

…at-the-edge analyses like “Mind, Morphogenetic fields, Quantum physics…” or

…life changing essays like “Why good people suffer“,

the Harmonia Philosophica philosophy program has delivered in its very short life more than anyone would ever expect.

A list of some of the best Harmonia Philosophica articles can be found here and here.

About Spyridon Kakos

Spyridon Kakos (a.k.a. Spiros Kakos) is a writer and thinker located in Greece. He has been writing about philosophy for many years and has been managing the Harmonia Philosophica philosophy program since its inception with extreme success. He has been the Chief Editor of Harmonia Philosophica portals (harmoniaPhilosophica.com, harmonia-philosophica.blogspot.com, harmoniaPhilosophica.eu) since their foundation and is profoundly interested in Religion and Science philosophy, as well as the philosophy of the irrational.

His philosophical work is mainly concentrated on an effort to free thinking from the chains of “logic” and reconcile all philosophical opinions under the umbrella of the “One”.

As Rilke said, life’s purpose is to be defeated by greater things. And the most important things in life are illogical. We must fight the dogmatic belief in “logic” if we are to stay humans…

We should stop thinking in order to think.

Credo quia absurdum!

Read more details at the relevant biographical page here.

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Related portals and sites

Harmonia Philosophica started with… everything in mind. After all, the main motto of this portal is “Stop thinking in order to think”, so why not post articles related to chess programming or pages with arguments in favor of religion?

Soon though, some of the facets of Harmonia Philosophica became big enough to be able to sustain their own portal. And thus, the portals of Chess Programming and Religion Arguments were born.

Please find below some other interesting sites or affiliated portals.

• .ars gratia animae.: An interesting art portal. Everything starts with art anyway, don’t they?
• Chess Programming: Affiliated portal focused on chess programming.
• Facebook Community: Our Facebook community page.
• Harmonia @ Blogger: The alter ego of Harmonia Philosophica, but in Blogger. Contains a whole different set of articles (with the exception of some major articles that are shared on both portals).
• Philosophy Snapshots: Affiliated portal with short ‘snapshots’ of philosophy.
• Religion Arguments: Affiliated portal focused on publishing and discussing arguments in favor of religion.
• Death and Humans: Affiliated portal dedicated to posting articles and ideas related to Death.

Harmonia Philosophica strives to bring the best to its readers and in that context we always try to promote the best content out there.

Cooperation Inquiries

Please contact us at harmonia-philosophica@hotmail.com for potential cooperation proposals. Such cooperation could include the writing and posting of articles, cross-referencing, production of podcasts or videos or even the organization of events to discus philosophy of religion and science!

~ And remember: You must stop thinking in order to think!