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Edeneum
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The theoretical academy of Renaissance. Where Renaissance makes the object, Edeneum examines the idea: the classics read closely, cited exactly and carried into the life of the builder.
Discipline I · Ethics · Venetian Redrenaissanceml.com/edeneum
The ideaPARS I · IDEA
IThe Garden
The Mind Is a Garden
Eden is where learning began. Adam’s first work in the garden was to name the animals. Abraham reasoned his way to the Creator and stood on one side, with the whole world on the other. Moses brought the teaching down from the mountain; David sang of the man who is like a tree planted by streams of water; Solomon spoke of everything from the cedar to the hyssop, the birds, the ant and the stars; Maimonides set it all in order for the perplexed. The mind is a garden, and it has to be tended.
There is also a physical world, a house where it is studied: in the marketplace called the Agora, in the grove of Akademos, walking the Lyceum. Edeneum is that house for the builders of a second Renaissance: practical and theoretical wisdom, the hands of Betzalel and Oholiav, and the mind at Edeneum.
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IIThe Problem
Philosophy Has Yet to Be Adopted in the Internet Age
IThe problem
Dense & inaccessible
Philosophy can intimidate
Turn over ↻IDense & inaccessible
It asks for patience and clarity.
- Intimidating
- Complicated language
- Hundreds of concepts to master
- Hard to apply in practice
IIThe problem
No modern context
Confusion in society today
Turn over ↻IINo modern context
A wide gap between the principles and our lives today.
- Pre-internet thinking
- No digital frameworks
- No modern applications
- A gap of context to bridge
IIIThe problem
Not practical
Value in the day to day
Turn over ↻IIINot practical
Few resources you can act on.
- Theory without practice
- No frameworks for decisions
- No guides to carry it out
- Abstract concepts only
IIIThe Codex
Wisdom, Restructured
The Edeneum Codex turns each dense text into an Enhanced Edition: the whole work, with summaries, visual frameworks and applications to the problems of today.
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IVHow It Works
From Antiquity to Your Life
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The pathPARS II · VIA
VReaders
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I · doric
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Edeneum Codex · MetaphysicsFrom logic to the divine science
Guide of the Perplexed
Maimonides
“It is certainly necessary for whoever wishes to achieve human perfection to train himself at first in the art of logic, then in the mathematical sciences according to the proper order, then in the natural sciences, and after that in the divine science.”Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed I.34
VIIThe Order
Seven Disciplines, in the Order of the Guide
Edeneum follows that order. Each discipline keeps one pigment for good, so the colour tells you where you are in the library: red is always Ethics, ultramarine is always Logic. Choose a column to raise it and read its works.
EDENEVM · ORDO · STVDIORVM
I · Preliminary
Ethics
Venetian Reddoric2 works
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle
- Eight ChaptersMaimonides
The fellowshipPARS III · SODALITAS
VIIIMembership
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IXFree
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