Galileo Galilei once said, “Passion is the genesis of genius”.
I think of Galileo Galilei as an example of the relationship between Culture and Personal Passion. Through his personal history, the force of his ideas and his impetus he became one of the most inspiring people for the humankind. Our current conception of the universe's order, the bases of the modern notion of nature and Jupiter's four moons are some of his discoveries, findings that by the way, continue resonating. Today, we conceived the cosmos as we do it, thanks to his infinite freedom and his daring perspective of the investigation field. Nevertheless, the perspective that we currently have of him and his work is very different from the one that he had to face in the cultural context of his time. It is indeed his irruption in history what begins to generate a collapse and a transformation of the ideas, beliefs and practices of Europe in the early 1600. In this case, his personal passion was one of the levers for change and what made him confront that culture.
In the particular case of Galileo, I would like …show more content…
To ask an individual to stay away from their own passions is to condemn him to fade away, because these passions are what sustain his feelings, ideas and impulses that tirelessly crave significant transformation of the social environment. Seen this way, the personal passions are the pillars of identity and why not say, of collective identities; they are the dreams of a man or a woman and by carry out those dreams, in any time and place, they build they own current identity, and the collective identity of that society. I like to think of the idea of culture as a place where personal passions come into play with the community and that are an invitation to meet some in the dreams of others. In the words of Brian Chesky "culture is a shared way of doing something with
I think of Galileo Galilei as an example of the relationship between Culture and Personal Passion. Through his personal history, the force of his ideas and his impetus he became one of the most inspiring people for the humankind. Our current conception of the universe's order, the bases of the modern notion of nature and Jupiter's four moons are some of his discoveries, findings that by the way, continue resonating. Today, we conceived the cosmos as we do it, thanks to his infinite freedom and his daring perspective of the investigation field. Nevertheless, the perspective that we currently have of him and his work is very different from the one that he had to face in the cultural context of his time. It is indeed his irruption in history what begins to generate a collapse and a transformation of the ideas, beliefs and practices of Europe in the early 1600. In this case, his personal passion was one of the levers for change and what made him confront that culture.
In the particular case of Galileo, I would like …show more content…
To ask an individual to stay away from their own passions is to condemn him to fade away, because these passions are what sustain his feelings, ideas and impulses that tirelessly crave significant transformation of the social environment. Seen this way, the personal passions are the pillars of identity and why not say, of collective identities; they are the dreams of a man or a woman and by carry out those dreams, in any time and place, they build they own current identity, and the collective identity of that society. I like to think of the idea of culture as a place where personal passions come into play with the community and that are an invitation to meet some in the dreams of others. In the words of Brian Chesky "culture is a shared way of doing something with