Wednesday, August 19, 2009

introdutction

So I didn’t understand a lot of this introduction, but it looked interesting. “Questions of life” is a great title to this book because there are a lot of questions asked in this introduction. A lot of philosophical questions that make you think every time you say them. Philosophy is all about that, asking questions of the unknown. Even questions beyond the unknown, it may sound weird but that is how philosophy is described in this introduction. Talking of questions, Socrates a Greek philosopher was well known for that, the Socratic Method. He asked a lot of questions to random people, and he was also a teacher. This introduction also explains the death of this great philosopher, the fatal hemlock he drank. He had an opportunity to escape but he wasn’t going to deny his teachings to the ignorant. Maybe this book is like these, they are teaching us things that are going against are religion or our costumes. But this book is of philosophy and as I said before, there is going to be a lot of questioning in this book. So far by reading this introduction, it gives me an impression that a lot of questions are going to be answered in my head, a lot of thinking is going to be done.

1 comment:

  1. I’m also the same as you. I think this book is going to teach us a lot in this semester and will help us with all the questions we have towards life. It’s intresting to know some facts about Socrates that you know, and that by reading your post I know them now. So let’s see how this book is going to teach us!

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