A Little History of Philosophy
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Socrates and Plato
"About 2,400 years ago in Athens a man was put to death for
asking too many questions. There were philosophers before
him, but it was with Socrates that the subject really took off. If
philosophy has a patron saint, it is Socrates."
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True Happiness, Aristotle
‘One swallow doesn’t make a summer.’
"You might think this
phrase comes from William Shakespeare or another great poet.
It sounds as if it should. In fact it’s from Aristotle’s book The
Nicomachean Ethics, so called because he dedicated it to his son
Nicomachus."
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We Know Nothing
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Pyrrho
"No one knows anything – and even that’s not certain. You
shouldn’t rely on what you believe to be true. You might be
mistaken. Everything can be questioned, everything doubted.
The best option, then, is to keep an open mind. Don’t commit,
and you won’t be disappointed. That was the main teaching of
Scepticism, a philosophy that was popular for several hundred
years in Ancient Greece and later in Rome. Unlike Plato and
Aristotle, the most extreme sceptics avoided holding firm opin-
ions on anything whatsoever. The Ancient Greek Pyrrho (c.
365–c. 270 bc) was the most famous and probably the most
extreme sceptic of all time. His life was decidedly odd."
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The Garden Path, Epicurus
"Imagine your funeral. What will it be like? Who’ll be there?
What will they say? What you are imagining must be from your
own perspective. It’s as if you are still there watching events
from a particular place, perhaps from above, or from a seat
among the mourners. Now, some people do believe that that is
a serious possibility, that after death we can survive outside a
physical body as a kind of spirit that might even be able to see
what’s going on in this world. But for those of us who believe
death is final, there is a real problem. Every time we try and
imagine not being there we have to do it by imagining that we
are there, watching what is happening when we’re not there."
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Learning Not to Care
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Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca
"If it starts to rain just as you have to leave your house, that is
unfortunate. But if you have to go out, apart from putting on a
raincoat or getting your umbrella, or cancelling your appoint-
ment, there isn’t much you can do about it. You can’t stop the
rain no matter how much you want to. Should you be upset
about this? Or should you just be philosophical? ‘Being philo-
sophical’ simply means accepting what you can’t change. What
about the inevitable process of growing older and the shortness
of life? How should you feel about these features of the human
condition? Same again?"
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Who Is Pulling Our Strings?
Augustine
"Augustine (354–430) desperately wanted to know the truth. As
a Christian, he believed in God. But his belief left many ques-
tions unanswered. What did God want him to do? How should
he live? What should he believe? He spent most of his waking
life thinking and writing about these questions. The stakes were
very high. For people who believe in the possibility of spending
eternity in hell, making a philosophical mistake can seem to
have terrible consequences. As Augustine saw it, he might end
up burning in sulphur for ever if he was wrong. One problem he
agonized over was why God allowed evil in the world. The
answer he gave is still a popular one with many believers."
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