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Aric C (he/him)'s avatar

Wow, it turns out I like philosophy a lot more than I thought I did based on how poorly I grasped it in college. Thank you!

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Jeannine Lawall's avatar

The world would be a better place if we all used the three sieves, but newspapers might go out of business...

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Alex Hallatt's avatar

No wonder Socrates’ teachings resonate down through the centuries. Nothing changes.

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Ghareeb Alahbabi's avatar

It seems that the philosopher Socrates died poisoned by one of his students who did not accept his ideas and philosophy of life, death and accountability. His punishment was imprisonment and death by poisoning in the history of the great Rome that glorifies science and scientists and claims freedom of thought and opinion. This is how wise men and philosophers were punished in ancient times.

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Ghareeb Alahbabi's avatar

It seems that the wise Socrates died poisoned by one of his students who hated him to the point of poisoning him to death, if I may say so.

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Andrew Heard's avatar

I understand the idea but not everything that is said had to be true, good and necessary. Especially since people might dispute what’s good, true and necessary.

A fictional story isn’t necessarily true by virtue of it being fiction.

Fictional stories about horrible people doing bad things aren’t necessarily good.

Some people would say that fiction is unnecessary.

Yet many would disagree that fiction is not good, true and necessary because they have learned so much from it.

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