Know Thyself- Philosophy
My Part: Know thyself, and an unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates was a an eminent classical Greek Athenian philosopher played a major role in the contribution of philosophy. As for being the most influential thinker of the fifth century, he also had a fairly strong educational background in music, geometry, and gymnastics. Socrates had a comparable way in soughing to genuine knowledge, almost just as the way the Sophist’s did it. Though his beliefs had no writing, it is word of mouth through vast generations of his students and strong believed philosophers that have brought down his knowledge through time. His well known belief of ‘Know Thyself’ is his major concept of teaching offering knowledge to others that it is vital for a person to know themselves. Through subjective studying of the use of nature, ‘Know Thyself’ highlights the term morality. In ancient Greece, “Know Thyself” are other ways of saying self realization, or self knowledge. Knowing thyself is being able to know about everything, and by doing so it makes us knowledgeable about all creation. This way, it clears up our feelings of unhappiness, doubt, fear, sadness, and all other kinds of negative emotions. “Know Thyself” was one of the three sayings carved on the temple of Apollo at Delphi located in Greece.
It is important to focus on the things in the world that make us immoral. By doing so, we must be able to study and know the differences between, good and bad, justice and injustice, love and hate- by doing so, it will help us know the difference between what’s true or false, and what’s right or wrong. In more contemporary ways of looking at it, it defines how we must know our emotions, and being able to recognize them. Only when we know ourselves, we know the world-giving us the power to survive in content. It is crucial to bear in mind that knowing ourselves is a objective method which is based on reasoning, instead of reasoning and feelings. Through the philosophical
Socrates was a an eminent classical Greek Athenian philosopher played a major role in the contribution of philosophy. As for being the most influential thinker of the fifth century, he also had a fairly strong educational background in music, geometry, and gymnastics. Socrates had a comparable way in soughing to genuine knowledge, almost just as the way the Sophist’s did it. Though his beliefs had no writing, it is word of mouth through vast generations of his students and strong believed philosophers that have brought down his knowledge through time. His well known belief of ‘Know Thyself’ is his major concept of teaching offering knowledge to others that it is vital for a person to know themselves. Through subjective studying of the use of nature, ‘Know Thyself’ highlights the term morality. In ancient Greece, “Know Thyself” are other ways of saying self realization, or self knowledge. Knowing thyself is being able to know about everything, and by doing so it makes us knowledgeable about all creation. This way, it clears up our feelings of unhappiness, doubt, fear, sadness, and all other kinds of negative emotions. “Know Thyself” was one of the three sayings carved on the temple of Apollo at Delphi located in Greece.
It is important to focus on the things in the world that make us immoral. By doing so, we must be able to study and know the differences between, good and bad, justice and injustice, love and hate- by doing so, it will help us know the difference between what’s true or false, and what’s right or wrong. In more contemporary ways of looking at it, it defines how we must know our emotions, and being able to recognize them. Only when we know ourselves, we know the world-giving us the power to survive in content. It is crucial to bear in mind that knowing ourselves is a objective method which is based on reasoning, instead of reasoning and feelings. Through the philosophical
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