Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY AS A LIFESTYLE ATTITUDE

The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787). (Notice the index of the left hand pointing up)

Some of us seem to bravely ignore and constantly deny the fact that, philosophy of course IS a lifestyle attitude. On the contrary, most scholars  mistakingly focus on the scientific part, which is only just a small part of any philosophical system.If philosophy is not a life attitude then how can one explain the life of Diogenes or the death of Socrates?