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The New European Renaissance and our future

What kind of a world do we live in? It is a journey, an adventure going faster and faster. Were we really born to live and to die following the rules of evolution, which is blind and unguided? Is our species truly just not equipped to survive what comes next? Has the time really come for us to take control of our own evolution and leap past our alarming ignorance to plunge deep into the unknown where we will discover our true potential, and will artificial intelligence, as one of the new tools of the future, really provide the key to salvation? Questions like these about the world are not just part of fiction and they resonate loudly.

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The winter is coming

Sodelovali smo na 11. mednarodni znanstveni konferenci »Za človeka gre« 2023, ki je bila posvečena aktualnim izzivom družbenega in tehnološkega razvoja. Pripravili sta jo Alma Mater Europaea in Evropska akademija znanosti in umetnosti iz Salzburga, z namenom, da predstavimo Novo Evropsko Renesanso. Vizionarski dokument, ki je bil na konferenci predstavljen je pripravil slovenski sociolog, pisatelj in alpinist prof. Igor Škamperle iz Univerze v Ljubljani. V njem je primerjal čas renesanse s situacijo danes. Škamperle obrazloži, da se je v času srednjeveške Evrope v času velike stiske, vojne, lakote, revščine in velikega dvoma pojavila renesansa.

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The Pillars of The New European Renaissance

In 1997 one of the most prominent experts on Renaissance in the country Prof. Igor Škamperle wrote in the preface to the translation of the book written in 1486 The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) by Pico della Mirandola the following sentences: