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Alexandre (Arordi) Varbedian (born June 11, 1943, in Marseille, France) is a French-Armenian Armenologist, ethnologist, essentialist and ontologist.
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Alexandre (Arordi) Varbedian (born June 11, 1943, in Marseille, France) is a French-Armenian Armenologist, ethnologist, essentialist and ontologist.
Varbedian was born in a family with roots from Khoy and Sasun-Bitlis and re-emigrated into Armenia in 1948. In 1968 he graduated from Architectural Department of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute; and in 1970 from the actor department of studio "Hayfilm". In 1975 after moving back to Marseille he continued his professional activities as an architect, and his ethnological activities as a producer, writer, public speaker, but primarily as an Armenologist, ethnologist and essentialist.
Mr. Varbetian is a recipient of national and international awards in the first three fields mentioned above. [1]
Mr. Varbedian has written for around 50 Armenian, Diaspora and foreign periodicals, he was editor of the London based biweekly "Erebuni" (1987), the first issue of the ethnological journal "Eutyun" (lit. Essence) (Yerevan – 1992). He founded and led the French-Armenian theatrical group "Arvestanoc Sevak" (1978–1981, award winner of JAF-80 Paris Festival). He was founder of the Diaspora "Haratevman Ukht" union (1986–1990) and the expanded form of that organization with involvement well-known members of the Armenian intelligentsia. He was also founder of "Eutyun" – Temple of National Wisdom (Armenia, since 1990).
He had presentations, radio and television programs and numerous activities in Armenia, in almost all centers of the Diaspora and in foreign universities. And the main theme of all those is the eternity of the Armenian nation, the programming and disclosure of its main patterns, the presentation and indoctrination of the importance of a national identity. [2]
He authored:
His works were recognized by Garzu, S. Paradjanov, M. Ragon, A. Terterian, C. Paren, H. Shiraz, H. Sahyan, academicians such as Victor Hambardzumyan, V. Ivanov, S. Yeremyan and about sixty other Armenian and foreign famous individuals. British-Armenian producer H. Pilikyan labeled him as "genius Armenian ambassador with diapason of Shakespeare,". [4] Late Vahe Oshakan referred him as "one of very few imaginative, precious and courageous parts of Armenian history". [5] Armenian academician Varazdad Haroutyunyan praised him as a "national phenomenon" (in the section devoted to Varbedian of his "My Contemporaries" volume) and others as "the next representative of the Armenian Ideology after R. Patkanyan, H. Asatryan and Garegin Nzhdeh". [6]
Sevak Aramazd (Hovanisyan-Germany) is describing him as "presenters of the Armenian Soul jailed in dark caves, the greatest names of a small group of "outstanding thinkers", D. Varujan, K. Zaryan, G. Njdeh and A. Varbetian". [7] [1] Nevertheless, starting from 2002 Alexandre Varbedian's entry to the Motherland is strictly forbidden.
...To really live...is to live in harmony with our true divine essence...with the divine spark shining bright from the innermost depth of
our Soul-Spirit...an individual who does not know [Know...Gnosis] and lives his or her life in tune with the quintessential Cosmic Laws will never achieve oneness with our true Self/Source... but will merely exist in an imbalanced, unnatural and unhealthy mode
so, ignorance is not bliss... ignorance is death...
— A.Varbedian
Alexandre A. Varbedian is the author of the EIZM (theory of essence or theory of everything). [8]
The Eizm is an essentialistic doctrine, a synthesis of ancient paganistic systems, different currents of religious, philosophical and/or classical concepts various metaphysical or esoteric schools, scientific theories, and cosmological hypotheses. With the Hegelian principle of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, Materialism and Idealism are also coincident with each other and together, in harmony, they solve the apple of discord of all time, which is «the fundamental question of philosophy» ; Materialism as material and idealism as philosophies of immaterial states.
In other words, it is neither theism, nor atheism but simply the Eizm. Hence, if philosophy is the science of all sciences, then Eizm is the philosophy of all philosophies. Generally, it is a new perspective, a complete viewpoint of the universum. Simply put, if philosophy is merely extracted from nature and life experience, then the Eizm is extracted not only from the above-mentioned, but also from the universal acquaintance/ understanding of modern sciences and especially of cosmology.
Mr. Varbedian is nonpartisan, has two sons and two grandchildren. [1]
Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being considered "real". Because there are different types of idealism, it is difficult to define the term uniformly.
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions of material things. According to philosophical materialism, mind and consciousness are caused by physical processes, such as the neurochemistry of the human brain and nervous system, without which they cannot exist. Materialism directly contrasts with idealism, according to which consciousness is the fundamental substance of nature.
Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. In early Western thought, Platonic idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". In Categories, Aristotle similarly proposed that all objects have a substance that, as George Lakoff put it, "make the thing what it is, and without which it would be not that kind of thing". The contrary view—non-essentialism—denies the need to posit such an "essence". Essentialism has been controversial from its beginning. In the Parmenides dialogue, Plato depicts Socrates questioning the notion, suggesting that if we accept the idea that every beautiful thing or just action partakes of an essence to be beautiful or just, we must also accept the "existence of separate essences for hair, mud, and dirt".
Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
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German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment. The period of German idealism after Kant is also known as post-Kantian idealism or simply post-Kantianism. One scheme divides German idealists into transcendental idealists, associated with Kant and Fichte, and absolute idealists, associated with Schelling and Hegel.
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