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SOCRATES (469-399 BC)
Socrates was the first person I chose for my “committee”. The things about Socrates that have always drawn me to his work was his belief in “know thyself” and that “the unexamined life is not worth living”. His drive and interest in questioning appeals to me most, probably because I question everything. I want to know why things are the way they are, how they got that way and why am I perceiving something in the manner I am. Through the act of questioning we learn and grow, we discern what is right or wrong for us as individuals and find truths about ourselves.
Socrates’ work shows me that it’s possible for social conventions, labels, and habits to conceal what may be real or what may lie beneath and having decided to live a life based on truth (mine of course) his contributions in this area are very beneficial in devising an authentic human existence. I don’t need the veils of others imposed upon me; I have enough of my own to work through and the work of Socrates’ speaks directly to this issue.
If Socrates’ view of knowledge and truth were more widely held by current society I think we would have less people in therapy! Socrates had it right when he said, “the knower must account for the truth of what he holds to be true”. If we could throw blind faith out the window and figure out why we believe what we do and how we came to believe it we would then make choices truer to our inherent nature and be a society of happier, more well balanced people.
ARISTOTLE (384-322 BC)
I also chose Aristotle to be on my “committee” because of his ideas relating to the body and mind as pieces of the same being and how they work to form a unity between the psychological and physiological processes. I believe the body and mind work together as well as against each other and our desire to keep them in balance is what makes us different from nonhuman animals.
Aristotle’s...
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