As I prepare to write a post concerning ancient Western civilization, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or last post and might interest you further.
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers
Why do people have such a lust, crave the kind of knowledge that we do? We want stability, we are curious and want to know how the world around us came to be, and how it functions, and we want that to have a pattern, to be stable. Yet, in so many ways we as humans are at least somewhat chaotic, and in that way we must work hard to achieve this stability that might never come. Why?
Change. What is change, and how much is it relevant, so many have questioned the existence of change. Nothing changes, the circle of life is a circle going round and round, but everything from one person's perspective comes to an end, the end of a year, your first job, becoming a parent, so which is it? Where do you stand, does change exist, or does it not, or is there somewhere in the middle that you can agree with even more?
Socrates and Plato
Socrates was brilliant, but no one liked him because he would use probing questions to teach people what they already knew. This is similar to what I'm doing here with these posts, but what made Socrates think to do this? What really angered the people?
There has always been the debate between philosophers, "My truth doesn't have to be your truth." Is this statement accurate, and if so to what extent. For example, it could be true for you that the contents of the Bible is pure history, without that being someone else's truth, but can it also be your truth that a crocodile is a myth?
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