In her international webcast, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche referenced the importance of Pope Leo XIV’s speech on Oct. 25, in front of thousands assembled at St. Peter’s Square, where he talked about the founder of modern science and great Renaissance thinker, Nicholas of Cusa. Pope Leo XIV had said that during the fifteenth century, in Cusa’s time, many people lived in fear, took up arms against each other, and looked at their neighbors with general distrust and suspicion, while Cusa, “believed in humanity.” Pope Leo XIV said that Cusa “understood that there are opposites which must be held together.”
Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical breakthrough, which he developed throughout the course of the Council of Florence from 1431-1445, was his method of the Coincidence of Opposites. Helga Zepp-LaRouche described this method in-depth on her international webcast. The Coincidence of Opposites is, “a method of thinking [of] how you [can avoid getting] get stuck in the nitty-gritties of this problem or that problem, but how you can train your mind to think the one. This is extremely important. The Pope applies it very clearly to the political situation, because, obviously, If you look at every conflict in the world today, if you look at the situation in the Middle East or Ukraine or the Caribbean, if you only look at the facts, the history of the crisis, the tensions and the personalities involved, you will never find an adequate solution. But if you start totally the other way around, if you think the one first, in this case the one humanity—that which unites us all—and then from that elevated point of view look at the concrete crisis, you can always find a solution…. You can apply that method to any problem, to politics, economics, military issues, social issues, cultural issues, because it is a way of conflict resolution which does exactly that: that the hope of synthesizing the next step of the evolution of the development of mankind, you can see something that does not exist but which can be brought about by people of good will by concerted efforts. So, this is a very beautiful intervention…"
The revival of Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophy is one of the most profound questions which will determine the durable survival of all of humanity, during a time when geopolitical divisions are at their height, and when the prospect of thermonuclear war is incredibly high. While a step back from the brink has taken place today, with the meeting of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea, what is needed is a move towards durable survival between nations.
Civilizations have collapsed, not out of fate, but based on whether a culture was capable of rejecting its flawed axiomatic beliefs, and proceeding to a higher solution which seemed impossible before. This is what Nicholas of Cusa pioneered, when he engineered the successful Council of Florence which resolved the schism between both the Western and Eastern Churches. We can do the same today, following the approach of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Nicholas of Cusa.
Speakers: Bill Jones and Dennis Speed
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In her international webcast, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche referenced the importance of Pope Leo XIV’s speech on Oct. 25, in front of thousands assembled at St. Peter’s Square, where he talked about the founder of modern science and great Renaissance thinker, Nicholas of Cusa. Pope Leo XIV had said that during the fifteenth century, in Cusa’s time, many people lived in fear, took up arms against each other, and looked at their neighbors with general distrust and suspicion, while Cusa, “believed in humanity.” Pope Leo XIV said that Cusa “understood that there are opposites which must be held together.”
Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical breakthrough, which he developed throughout the course of the Council of Florence from 1431-1445, was his method of the Coincidence of Opposites. Helga Zepp-LaRouche described this method in-depth on her international webcast. The Coincidence of Opposites is, “a method of thinking [of] how you [can avoid getting] get stuck in the nitty-gritties of this problem or that problem, but how you can train your mind to think the one. This is extremely important. The Pope applies it very clearly to the political situation, because, obviously, If you look at every conflict in the world today, if you look at the situation in the Middle East or Ukraine or the Caribbean, if you only look at the facts, the history of the crisis, the tensions and the personalities involved, you will never find an adequate solution. But if you start totally the other way around, if you think the one first, in this case the one humanity—that which unites us all—and then from that elevated point of view look at the concrete crisis, you can always find a solution…. You can apply that method to any problem, to politics, economics, military issues, social issues, cultural issues, because it is a way of conflict resolution which does exactly that: that the hope of synthesizing the next step of the evolution of the development of mankind, you can see something that does not exist but which can be brought about by people of good will by concerted efforts. So, this is a very beautiful intervention…"
The revival of Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophy is one of the most profound questions which will determine the durable survival of all of humanity, during a time when geopolitical divisions are at their height, and when the prospect of thermonuclear war is incredibly high. While a step back from the brink has taken place today, with the meeting of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea, what is needed is a move towards durable survival between nations.
Civilizations have collapsed, not out of fate, but based on whether a culture was capable of rejecting its flawed axiomatic beliefs, and proceeding to a higher solution which seemed impossible before. This is what Nicholas of Cusa pioneered, when he engineered the successful Council of Florence which resolved the schism between both the Western and Eastern Churches. We can do the same today, following the approach of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Nicholas of Cusa.
Speakers: Bill Jones and Dennis Speed
Manhattan Project Oct 12th – As Peace is Undermined in Gaza, What Will We Do to Sustain It
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Manhattan Project Oct 12th – As Peace is Undermined in Gaza, What Will We Do to Sustain It
As we enter the early phase of a tentative peace deal between Israel and Hamas to end a horrific genocide conducted against largely innocent Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, there are already moves being made by Netanyahu’s criminal team to undermine the peace process.
The Gaza ceasefire went into effect noon local time on Oct. 10, while Israeli forces completed their withdrawal to lines specified in the first phase of the agreement. Only six hours later, two people in Khan Younis were killed by an Israeli drone strike. Netanyahu then threatened a return to war, if Hamas did not capitulate on disarmament and other Israeli demands, saying, “If this is achieved the easy way, great. And if not, it will be achieved the hard way.”
Also, consider the fact that respected Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, who was specifically named in the list of 250 Palestinian political prisoners to be released in exchange for hostages held by Hamas, was omitted later on.
We cannot leave the peace process in the hands of criminal leaders who will take any chance to sabotage it. What and who is behind Netanyahu, including his criminal war cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich? The old British Empire, who intend to prevent Southwest Asia from being a world crossroad for development, are using Israel as the hand grenade to blow up the entire region.
American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche suggested, following the 1993 Oslo Accords, that shovels be immediately put into the grounds so that people in the region could see that something was moving, and that there was real development. If nations in the region were to agree to LaRouche’s Oasis Plan, including the Arab League, Gulf Cooperation Organization, and Organization of Islamic Cooperation, they could throw a monkey wrench into imperial ambitions for the region, and promise a real future to the people of Gaza and surrounding nations.
Speakers: Harley Schlanger and Mike Robinson
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In her international webcast, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche referenced the importance of Pope Leo XIV’s speech on Oct. 25, in front of thousands assembled at St. Peter’s Square, where he talked about the founder of modern science and great Renaissance thinker, Nicholas of Cusa. Pope Leo XIV had said that during the fifteenth century, in Cusa’s time, many people lived in fear, took up arms against each other, and looked at their neighbors with general distrust and suspicion, while Cusa, “believed in humanity.” Pope Leo XIV said that Cusa “understood that there are opposites which must be held together.”
Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical breakthrough, which he developed throughout the course of the Council of Florence from 1431-1445, was his method of the Coincidence of Opposites. Helga Zepp-LaRouche described this method in-depth on her international webcast. The Coincidence of Opposites is, “a method of thinking [of] how you [can avoid getting] get stuck in the nitty-gritties of this problem or that problem, but how you can train your mind to think the one. This is extremely important. The Pope applies it very clearly to the political situation, because, obviously, If you look at every conflict in the world today, if you look at the situation in the Middle East or Ukraine or the Caribbean, if you only look at the facts, the history of the crisis, the tensions and the personalities involved, you will never find an adequate solution. But if you start totally the other way around, if you think the one first, in this case the one humanity—that which unites us all—and then from that elevated point of view look at the concrete crisis, you can always find a solution…. You can apply that method to any problem, to politics, economics, military issues, social issues, cultural issues, because it is a way of conflict resolution which does exactly that: that the hope of synthesizing the next step of the evolution of the development of mankind, you can see something that does not exist but which can be brought about by people of good will by concerted efforts. So, this is a very beautiful intervention…"
The revival of Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophy is one of the most profound questions which will determine the durable survival of all of humanity, during a time when geopolitical divisions are at their height, and when the prospect of thermonuclear war is incredibly high. While a step back from the brink has taken place today, with the meeting of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea, what is needed is a move towards durable survival between nations.
Civilizations have collapsed, not out of fate, but based on whether a culture was capable of rejecting its flawed axiomatic beliefs, and proceeding to a higher solution which seemed impossible before. This is what Nicholas of Cusa pioneered, when he engineered the successful Council of Florence which resolved the schism between both the Western and Eastern Churches. We can do the same today, following the approach of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Nicholas of Cusa.
Speakers: Bill Jones and Dennis Speed
