Happy Monday!
This week’s book is
It is a fantastic introduction to anyone who wants to enter to the world of philosophy. The writer is simply prolific.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 32 seconds.
Here’s my top 10 takeaways (meant to be reflected upon, not just read):
1. Myths
They try to give people an explanation for something we can not understand.
2. Dualism
Philosophy gradually liberated itself from religion.
We could say that the natural philosophers took the first step in the direction of scientific reasoning, thereby becoming the precursor of what was to become science.
3. Philosophy
Philosophy is not something you can learn; but perhaps you can learn to think philosophically.
4. Real Socrates
Socrates never wrote a single line. Who Socrates ‘really’ was is relatively unimportant.
It is Plato’s portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the western world for nearly 2,500 years.
5. Scapegoats
When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people’s reason.
With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional brotherly love and unconditional forgiveness.
6. Church = Good?
The church closed Plato’s Academy in Athens. The year 529 thus became a symbol of the way the Christian Church put the lid on Greek philosophy, the monasteries had the monopoly of education, reflection, and meditation.
7. Universe Center?
The eggs of mammals were not discovered until 1827. It was therefore perhaps not so surprising that people though it was the man who was the creative and lifegiving force in reproduction.
We cannot judge our past ignorance with our present wisdom.
8. Faith
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
9. End In Mind
You have to turn the sheep loose before you can start to herd them.
10. Liberty
Our freedom obliges us to make something of ourselves, to live authentically or truly.
“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
— Jostein Gaarder
Until next week,
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