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What Philosophy Might Do To Us
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What is the purpose of philosophy? Can any practical thing come from this foolishness? These are some of the questions that philosophers have been asking for thousands of years. The intent of this paper is to shed some light on these questions .... Middle of Term Paper
... then it is no philosophy at all, it is part of the commonsensical because it is not an original thought.
The fact that philosophy is "untimely" can be illustrated through the Socratic Dialogues. Socrates wanted the people of Athens to think about things the way they are instead of accepting public opinion. "The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates (Plato 38a). The Athenian people rejected the idea that man has control over himself, instead they believed that everything was dictated by the Gods. The fact that Socrates strived to live a virtuous life was his undoing. The people of Athens killed him because he challenged thei ... |
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