"The mother of revolution and crime is poverty." Aristotle
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato
"Tι είναι το πιο συνηθισμένο; Η ελπίδα. Ακόμα και αν όλα έχουν χαθεί, αυτή μένει." Θαλής ο Μιλήσιος
"In giving advice, seek to help, not please your friend." Solon
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." Aristotle
"Είναι δυνατόν ο πλούτος να κάνει έναν άνθρωπο φιλάνθρωπο." Μένανδρος
"Paying for public events was the way that the rich should serve the state" Aristotle
"A state of being productive of benefit to humans." The Platonic Academy's philosophical dictionary
The original meaning of the word philanthropy
Westerners owe the word philanthropy to the Greeks, who, since the fifth century BC ceaselessly elaborated on their idea of philanthropia. Etymologically, philanthropy means ‘the love of humanity’ and is generally believed to have been coined 2,500 years ago by its use in the myth Prometheus Bound.
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In this mythic tale we are told how the primitive creatures that were created to be human at first had no knowledge, skills, or culture of any kind and so they lived in caves, in the dark, in constant fear for their lives.
Zeus, the tyrannical king of the gods, decided to destroy them, but Prometheus, a Titan whose name meant forethought, out of his ‘philanthropos tropos’ or ‘humanity-loving character’ gave them two empowering, life-enhancing, gifts: fire, which symbolises all knowledge, skills, technology, arts, and science, and ‘blind hope’ or ‘optimism’.
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