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  • really low volume. would love to hear this some day.

  • @jaseins got some of it. "justice" - morally positive conflict resolution.

  • socrates was wrong about a lot of this, he was an old man for a long time and the greeks had it wrong too

  • 8:20 Please go back, find that dog and feed him and give him a nice home. Thank you.

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  • haha qu'est-ce que vous pensez pour la justice?? attrapee-la!

  • We need another Socrates TODAY!!

  • The Cynics were more fun.

  • Socrates was my childhood hero

  • @1awareness hahaha thats so cool :D

  • socrates was so confident because if you got on his wrong side he could stab you in the throat, he was a bad ass peeps always forget that, speak softly and carry a big stick indeed

  • Overconfident biotechs.

    I had to lough about this, becouse it is sooo typical!

    Biotech is characterized by overconfidence, lack of critical thinking and extremely lousy ideas put into fantastic packages and coverd by enthusiasm that has similarities to religious movements.

    Well, but that is the reason why most people who invested their money never got it back...

  • @Addsy84 Socrates was religious.

  • SHEEEEP

  • Socratic method: Being a dick

  • @lightlord220 ur a peasent infront of a computer. silly boy, nothing smart to say, cause u r stupid, not dark and not a lord. go to bed and have a nap. ps ask ur mummy to tuk u in. lordy child

  • @aaantonios Socrates had nothing smart to say, Wittgenstein > Socrates even if you control for the time period. Out of all the greeks, Aristotle was the best and he got most shit wrong. PS that is not how you spell peasant.

  • 5:05

  • reply to "frostbanman":

    Actually, the British narrator in this video wrote that reggae music and funded this video by means of promoting his music.

  • that french lady was annoyed by alain´s questioning, and when she tried to get out of the situation by saying she spoke french and alain spoke to her in french and kept making her feel uneasy witht he questioning, that my friends is the true socratic way haha

  • this guy has no business talking about how ugly he thinks Socrates is....somebody get this guy a mirror!!

  • Of course THEY don't want people able to critical thinking. Thinking slaves would be much harder to control.

  • Doctor Zoidberg ..... I knew you were acting to be dumb

  • Frank Sinatra - I did my way

    in the background :)

  • this is the guy from the sims. hes alive!! hes alive!!

  • he wears the same on every episode

  • Guy talking at 4:50 has the unique ability to bore the living shit out of anyone.

  • @CabronDioz lol i found myself scrolling down the comments when he started talking

  • Philosophy does set you free , but along the road destroys everything you hold dear.

  • @alphakristjan why does it destroy ? (like your first part of the sentance) :) not sure if I understand what you mean by the latter part.

  • @Yugoslav80 Try looking up Absurdism , Existentialism and Nihilism...

  • @alphakristjan Once you free your mind you're a new person. Everything you knew before no longer conjures the same feelings within you. You see everything from a fresh perspective. Therefore everything looks "destroyed." Really, you're just viewing it in a different way. It still exists as it was.

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  • real cool and all but how did he pay his fuckin rent?

  • @09:49 Uh-oh. British guy goes to ask French person what justice is. This is not gonna end well. Still, it's awesome that the host speaks French so well.

  • I know it is kinda irrelevant, but does anyone know the name of the reggae song in the beginning?, 00:21

  • Socrates liked doing little boys over the rails...

  • @TheJovanist Of all the things you could've said, THAT was on your mind? An old man and little boys? You're dirty and more perverse than anyone who actually does that because you think about that stuff. Probably too often.

  • @votumseparatum1 Lol. Actually that's the only negative thing I could say about Socrates. The truth is that Socrates likes the feel of a boy's anal poop hole. I'm just speaking the truth, no hate.....and you got troll'd son!

  • @votumseparatum1 He's probably thinking of Priest's.

  • Why is Socrates looks so damn important? It's not his looks that defined who he was, but what he did.

  • Socrastes, the past life of Chuck Norris

  • socrates is a sexy beast.

  • there isn't even any real proof the guy even existed. it was all plato!

  • @zach100590

    there was more people talking about this guy than plato.

    we dont know that palto existed either he could just be a ficvtional character too nobody really knows anything

  • @unfad1ng Its not what you know but how you know it, Socrates became perfect through reason alone, but he wasnt perfect, there is no measure...

  • @MegaFargone Perfection is just an abstract word used to describe a flawless state and behavior that no one knows exists.

  • @MegaFargone Perfection implies a purpose, but the question is whats the point to anything we are doing if we are simply fight over the scrap of meat... Perfectionism on the other hand is the sense of not being right minded in the use of reasoning, to anything which inhibits the mind in consumption of a past presence...

  • You want to build a road dont send your money to some guy in a suit since when did people in suits build roads ive never seen one, we need to stop acting like sheep and co-operate withen this world stop giving it all away. You want change get the fuck up and change already these wolves are never going to help

  • I agree with MrDevah

  • Socrates = Ugly? Preposterous.

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  • Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Socrates all Enlightened ones.

    Why concentrate on the name of the religion? Rather concentrate on the context :)

  • Have they made a movie based on Socrates?

  • @xenoghost01001 NOT YET but they should

  • @xenoghost01001 We wouldnt want people to think would we? That there is no point to religion,

  • they cant ,the only one who would be perfect is dead. Geogre Carlin

  • I like to think "justice" is absolute. We reap what we sow. But, not necessarily in the same "life-time" situation. (they may have done suicide to avoid being held accountable.) It is too difficult for me to explain, I just feel that once we are able to "handle" our punishment, then it is given. We may have to grow considerably on some (under-developed) part of ourselves, before we can bare the burden and learn/earn "grace" -- whereas we are finally 'let off the hook.'

  • @greatbroad There is no automatic mechanism that conserve justice. Because people thinks there is, they follow others. Wouldn't the experience of lack of justice help us to be better persons? Because if we don't do good, nobody will! We can only do justice, but never be justice. I've not thought of this before, but your comment made me think.

  • @bvssvni Thank you for your response.  As I write 6 Chicago police officers have been killed in 2010. It would seem Chicago gangsters no longer live in fear of the police. Of course, many civilians have been tortured by Chicago police to close cases and keep the arrest record high during my lifetime. Is this justice by the gangsters against a system who ground-up Blacks as fodder?

    For me, I am probably insane -- living in America, with all it's insantity.

  • @greatbroad Doing evil to other people can never be justice, as justice is good by nature, the attempt to do the right thing after a lot of thoughts and reasoning. But what about trying to be good by doing evil! This is very sad. Because reality has a lack of justice, justice is more valuable than everything. The world has become what we wanted, but not what we want. Persons that do justice are valuable, important beings! I think we are confused, but not insane, and sometimes all right :-)

  • @bvssvni Remember the Inquisition, how the people were tortured by "The Church" to reform to their standards, and if those who believe God tells them to do these things think they are Holy.

    So I come to the conclusion: my human brain cannot comprehend justice dealt by human beings as true justice. My belief now is reincarnation makes sense. We carry burdens we incurred when we were ignorant and small. I have regressed under hypnosis to see what I have done.

  • @greatbroad In my hypnotic state, I remembered being people in other times and places. I may have felt I was doing the "expected" thing; playing out a role in Society. But I caused great harm to others that I was too ignorant at the time to be aware.

    This lifetime has been toxic, violent and with many hardships. I used to believe I was a victim, but I have come to feel I am only reaping what I have sown at another time.

  • @greatbroad Then we have a dark future! I don't think there is many people that do not have ancestors without blood on their hands, width 4 grand parents, 8 great-grandparents and so on, which as reincarnation we would inherit the guild of the whole community! I know that the subconscious is powerful, it carries out all the computations that makes life possible, perhaps it's the cause of both the sins and the guild, while we are innocent deep inside?

  • @bvssvni We are all born beautiful little babies, totally open and trusting of life with lots of self-worth and self-esteem.

    If we are not that way now, then somewhere along the line, someone taught us, otherwise.

    This has been me (and I would guess -- most people).

    Goodness and mercy flow to us as we repent our hurtful ways, I trust. I believe this is why the World appears to be going to Hell right now. We are reaching the climax of whether we will exist or cease to exist.

  • @greatbroad The history of men is full of climaxes, but luckily soldiers get tired, soldiers need food and soldiers need sleep. We can hope that sooner or later there will be a lunchbreak where we tell our bosses: Do it yourself! A thought experiment: What if all in the world refused to pay taxes until there was world peace? Then all rich countries would be forced to invest in piece, because they could never prison 7 billion people! What a great moment that would be!

  • @bvssvni Yes. There's this guy Ron Paul. In 2008 I was @ the Target Center in MN when the republican's were having their convention (and hundreds of people were arrested). Anyway, Ron Paul asked Aimee Allen to perform the "Universal Soldier" for him, and she did. It is at the end of my video about the bailout.

  • @greatbroad Interesting. The threat only will have a positive effect, no risk is required. 50 years ago it was impossible, within 50 years it can happen. A deadline: 2061? Sounds easy to me! We can afford to wait 50 years for 400 000 years violence to end. If I lived in the age where war and misery ended, I couldn't think of a more interesting life. I find it strange that we never fight about what we want, we fight about what we think we have.

  • @bvssvni The only reason taxes exist is to control and distract us from the truth, but what does that really mean?

  • @MegaFargone Whether we like it or not, our life depend completely on taxes. I'm not against taxes, but I'm against war and if a country forces to contribute to war, where did it get that justice? It gets it from trust = taxes. I'm not saying that there is a simple solution, but I wished all countries actively worked on how to make piece on long term. After all, taxes and money are symbolic actions, a game where the rules can change while you play. First now we can start changing the rules $-)

  • @bvssvni My life does not rely upon taxes, it relies upon economics, you might want to watch the movie You cant Take it with you, 1938 and listen to the Grandpa charachter, taxation in America is tied to the socialist movement which uses the indoctrination in the inevitibility of gradualness as a means of slowly takig over a country, psycho political is all about brainwashing through symbolism, symbolism is a big word and a subject suited for Hermeneutics as a social guide

  • Consider the feeling of a child, 9-10 years old moving to a developed country from a less developed one, 2 completely different culture. Imaging the sway this child will experience. This is where philosophy is ultimately useful.

  • Consider the feeling of a child, 9-10 years old moving to a developed country from a less developed one. Imaging the sway this child will experience. This is where philosophy is ultimately useful.

  • Einstein, Bob Marley, Dr. MLK Jr.

  • socrates, ghandi, 2pac......3 people i wish i met

  • Hes Not Ugly,

    Socrates Is beautiful!!!

  • @asorlonnn have you ever met him you little cunt?

  • @diekontrolleure woah, you having a bad life?

  • @asorlonnn but but he is beautiful inside

  • Dream dinner: Socrates, Alan Watts, Carl Sagan, Canibus, Michio Kaku

  • @Zachdudeio2 DAMN! excellent tast. could u handle such presence. my head would explode

  • @ComradeGarz hahaha most likely

  • @Zachdudeio2 Canibus? lol I hope you mean the plant and not the rapper!

  • @TurboRonin83 what? canibus is a fuck'n genius writer. im a writer and got alot of inspiration from him due to his immense vocabulary. unless you have check out poet laurette 2 and c of tranquility and youll understand what i mean

  • @Zachdudeio2 lol. I used to be all into Cannibus. Then, one morning all hung over, I listened and laughed my ass off at his petty lyrics. That was the day I grew up.

  • IS this seriously the best example of going against the grain? a guy who going against a biotech firm:! boring

  • Israel Socratus explains his philosophy

    God as a Scientist

    Can a Rational Individual believe in God ?

    In other words:

    Can God be atheist, governed by scientific laws?

    Of course

    Because, if God exists, he must work in Absolute

    Reference Frame and have a set of Physical/ Mathematical laws to create everything

    And if we find this God’s Absolute House then we can understand Cod’s Physical Laws

  • He looks like Rowsdower!

  • Hmm.... the host in the video surely seems not to have a University degree in Philosophy but I like him when he puts the Socrates approach in practise by sharing that everybody needs to question theis beliefs and improve on their opinions continuously.

  • I think the presenter looks like Socrates. !!! believe me.

  • scribd (dot) com/nb812

  • ask the dumb American first! lol.

  • yeah whats with the reggae music! lol

  • haha, what's with the reggae music. Is that Socrates' choice of music?

  • @Frostbanman Thank you so much for making me burst out laughing. That made my day.

  • @Frostbanman yeap lol

  • @Frostbanman It's probably contemp. Greecian.

  • @Frostbanman Yes :p

  • @Frostbanman Socrates was from Jamaica. What are you stupid!?

  • que alguien lo traduzca a español

  • does this tell about his greatest acheivements

  • why?

  • Well put together!

  • thanks for the cool upload

    my band Death May Die has a song about the trial of Socrates titled "War on Wisdom" If you like melodic metal, please check us out at myspace/deathmaydiemusic

  • good pointss

  • No socrates isn't bi-sexual where are you guys pulling this BS out of? In the phadreus & symposium a guy tries to entice socrates to have sex with him but socrates does not. Socrates had a wife and children but unfortunately from what little info we have about his family he was not a good husband/father

  • Socrates was an extraordinary person!

  • undoubtedly

  • the interviewer looks so GayYYY...........

  • thats alain de botton right..

    adore him

  • so, freedom from conformity, is the dream of socratic philosophy, but, does that not call conformity with one's own thoughts, and resolution not to conform?

  • @pillsburydoughboy47 "conformity with one's own thoughts" is not conformity like that of group conformity. you may be thinking that the mind and the part of the mind that decides to conform with that mind are two separate things. in this period of philosophy they are not. in any case, conformity with ones own idea of what is good is not formally known as conformity, but rather known as integrity. hope this helped.

  • @nosepher wow cool, it does the "@" thing automatically now! Still though fuck you youtube; quit changing shit! Anyway; with philosophy it is entirely too easy to be a smart ass you know. Here is an example;

    if I go into the vacuum of space without a space suit, if I do not conform to the idea that my blood will boil, will that stop my blood from boilin? The idea of blood boiling is still just an idea, even if it is also a fact.

  • @pillsburydoughboy47

    Poor analogy. The vacuum of space is not a subjective concept. It is, as you said, a fact that you will die without some form of protection.

    Philosophy largely deals with the subjective; concepts which humans have dreamt up and adopted as the ideological ways to live, which is precisely what Socrates was questioning here.

  • @Vire70 Philosophy deals with the objective. It is the views we take that are subjective.

  • They really revealed their lack of seriousness when talking about the way Socrates looked. Of what relevance is it? What makes it even more absurd is that a guy who looks like a retarded fish is the one talking about someone elses ugliness.

    Socrates was a philosopher, not a contestant in Miss Universe!

  • @luffarantastarn i think they mention socrates' looks because it was mentioned not only by plato, but by several others. i think that while it may be trivial to you, from a psycho-analytic perspective it plays into socrates' willingness to be deviant.

  • @nosepher That's a good point.

  • @luffarantastarn well i guess to show that he was ugly and had self-confidence

  • @luffarantastarn I think they were using Socrates' looks and unkempt appearance to make a conection with his contempt for social acceptence or aproval.

  • Socrates was married to Xanthippe .

  • Socrates was MARRIED you idiot!

  • that guy was obviously joking cause he know that what he said will get under everyone's skin because of everyone on this videos clear worship of socrates.

  • That Socrates was married? no way, he was gay and had a boyfriend. This "documentary" is so poorly made. Too bad.

  • @annuitcoeptis2008 actually many philosophers at this time did have young male lovers/students. this was discussed in one of plato's dialogues. i dont remember the name of it but if you want i can look back and find it. also, socrates actually did have a wife making him bisexual, not gay.

  • I didn't say it was widely disputed, but that it has and continues to be disputed, which is true. The majority of historians do indeed agree he existed though, to be fair.

    Nevertheless a majority of historians thought Troy was fiction, so you just never know.

    My point is just that people shouldn't go around calling others ugly,especially someone nobody saw. So I think we should abstain from being pettifogs.

    Good day brother.

  • There are disputes whether or not Socrates even existed, yet you say for a fact that he was ugly or whatever. You say "ugly" as if it's some sort of fact. Beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder my brother. So I ask you to re-state that nonsense.

  • I think the disputes are really regarding his writings and if they were actually were his or were just reflections of Plato's thoughts.

    I don't think it is widely disputed that Socrates actually existed...so yeah.

  • Hahah, poor Bill. That clip will live forever.

  • I think that all the "ugliness" so often stresses by Plato, simply proves that Socrates did not exist and was the Plato' imaginary anti-Plato character. Nobility vs. poverty, ugliness vs. smartness, although thoughts are strangely similar for both philosophers, especially about politics.

  • Ya, but the historian Xenophon, as well as the playwright Aristophanes, both have described Socrates in much a similar way as Plato (with several exceptions, such as whether or not Socrates was paid to teach). In terms of physical appearance and philosophical ideals, though, the descriptions are almost identical, even considering that Aristophanes wrote a lot of comedy. Also, it would seem that Aristotle was more of an "anti-Plato" character than Socrates.

  • @MasterNinjaMike well said, aristotle was not given top position of the academy for two possible reasons. 1- aristotle disagreed with plato on several levels of philosphy. 2- he didn't happen to be plato's nephew (who did get top position).

  • I am a lone wolf. Always will be.

  • greeks were great thinkers and is why we have what we have....

  • The rhetoric of this video seems to sugarcoat the message Socrates' philosophy and make it look like a self-help seminar for PUSSIES.

  • scribd (dot) com/nb812

  • I hate the way they keep mentioning "ugly"

  • Well, Socrates was ugly.

  • Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE

  • Many of the early Mahayana theories of reality and knowledge can be related to Greek philosophical schools of thought. Mahayana Buddhism has been described as the "form of Buddhism which (regardless of how Hinduized its later forms became) seems to have originated in the Greco-Buddhist communities of India, through a conflation of the Greek Democritean-Sophistic-Skeptica­l tradition with the rudimentary and unformalized empirical and skeptical elements already present in early Buddhism

  • In the Prajnaparamita, the rejection of the reality of passing phenomena as "empty, false and fleeting" can also be found in Greek Pyrrhonism.The perception of ultimate reality was, for the Cynics as well as for the Madhyamakas and Zen teachers after them, only accessible through a non-conceptual and non-verbal approach (Greek Phronesis), which alone allowed to get rid of ordinary conceptions

  • The mental attitude of equanimity and dispassionate outlook in front of events was also characteristic of the Cynics and Stoics, who called it "Apatheia"Nagarjuna's dialectic developed in the Madhyamaka can be paralleled to the Greek dialectical tradition.

  • Numerous parallels exist between the Greek philosophy of the Cynics and, several centuries later, the Buddhist philosophy of the Madhyamika and Zen. The Cynics denied the relevancy of human conventions and opinions (described as typhos, literally "smoke" or "mist", a metaphor for "illusion" or "error"), including verbal expressions, in favor of the raw experience of reality. They stressed the independence from externals to achieve happiness

  • I still think the I-Ching birthed them all.

  • Hey guys! ;D

  • CREATIVITY NOT CONFORMITY

    EssiacHempLaetrile

  • "To understand the actual requires awareness, an alert and totally free mind." ~Bruce Lee

    ''Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.''

    ~ Mohandas Gandhi

  • I'm not sure if ANYONE here gets Socrates. Even with all the questions he asked, Socrates never obtained ANY UNVARIABLE TRUTH. The Socratic Method can only prove Skepticism. Not conspiracy, Skepticism, that knowledge isn't possible...maybe. Think about it, who can prove that they THEMSELVES exist??? (Cogitio Ergo Sum isn't good enough)

  • For a name of such great pretentiousness, I find it ironic that you are unsure of your existence.

  • Well I was into a lot of XKCD, so its a homage to lower level math, but yes, there is a contradiction between the name I chose and the views I possess. If in any way I believe myself "greater" than anyone else, it is that I try not to think I know that which I do not know. That and I set up this account to argue with people and show them do not know what they think they know. Most people give up after awhile in the "why" game : ).

  • Some people enjoy the "why" game.

  • Questioning EVERYTHING is the essence of Ancient Greek philosophy that gave rise to Western Civilization. Socrates was more interested in the fabric of questions and not in answers because answers tend to be confused with biases rather than in truths.

    What is "true" to one individual in society may be "false" to another individual in society.

    Consider the arguments for and against the existence of God. The Christian versus the atheist. Can either one "prove" that they are right?

  • I agree.

  • @SocratesTheGadfly To respond in order:

    He certainly was skilled in the art of questioning, but to me it seemed like he also wanted the answers; the inherent truths in life. (But there's no way to tell whether the Theory of Forms came from Socrates first or if it was Plato's ideas, I must suspend judgment.)

    This seems true that values are contextual within the culture and time period.

    Neither can be proven correct. Shall we simply believe one theory blindly or suspend judgment for truth?

  • Yes, your ascertain regarding inherent truths appears to be valid and the arguments regarding forms is of significance. However, a McDonald's restaurant would still follow its function even if it were housed in a Kentucky Fried Chicken building. It is speculated conjecture at best because Socrates himself left no writings of his behind. Yet, the crime of MURDER is universally WRONG in every culture throughout the world. The illegal killing of a fellow human being without just cause is a CRIME.

  • @SocratesTheGadfly Shall we transcend time, though? Ancient cultures regularly performed human sacrifice, and this was a good thing. In "The Outlines of Pyrrohnism" Sextus Empericus sites an ancient culture where a man was murdered by his son at the age of 60, and this was good. Should inherent evil bring only bad outcomes? Murder relieves some taxation of resources, giving more resources for the rest, which is good. I understand I am horrible for arguing such, but please weigh the argument.

  • @XTimes3 Does the end justify the means? The ancient cultures you refer to and others refer to are essentially un-enlightened cultures who practiced human sacrifices to appease gods based upon superstition and attempts to increase power over others. To quote a maxim NO GOOD ever occurs from INHERENT EVIL. A more recent proverb states that one should always be WARY when staring into the abyss because the abyss stares into YOU.

  • @SocratesTheGadfly And so I believe you can understand my point-mass murder can lead to economic profits for the remainers. Something so "evil" can still bring something "good." That was my point, murder may be deemed "wrong", but it doesn't qualify for inherent evil, as a good can outcome from it. It's not about justification of means;it's just about causality. Perhaps you may tell me what good and evil are, so that I know what abyss not to stare into?

  • because all people have their own biases you would NOT accept my explanation of what is good and what is evil. evil itself is a deviation from good and often starts with the best of intentions and quite often leads to hell ( ie the soviet empire's gulag prison that MURDERED millions of people and achieved NO GOOD at all ) the abyss i spoke of, is the abyss of YOUR own fears, suspicions, obsessions and desires. only you can tame them.

  • @SocratesTheGadfly So are you saying that Good and Evil can only be displayed in subjective terms, that objective meanings for these words can not be contrived? If I'm misunderstand you please tell me, but that statement to me lends itself to moralistic nihilism. What is the point of good and evil if we all can make up our own definitions for the words, as valid as any other subjectivity (opinion).

  • inherently ALL people have their own points of view and are biased toward what is "TRUE" based on their culture, philosophy, religion, morals, ethics and thousands of other influences.

    i give you the parable of the donkey:

    each morning the farmer would hit the donkey on the head with a club to get its attention and each day the donkey complied. one day when the farmer was not paying attention the donkey kicked the farmer square in the head and killed him. what did the donkey learn?

  • @SocratesTheGadfly I suppose he learned, to quote Pappa Joe Stalin, "Death solves all problems; no man, no problem." I'm confused as to how that relates. Death, perhaps is nether good or bad, but indifferent-inherently, and bad according to common subjectivity. I guess I went to much into my proof and lost site of the goal. If we state good and evil if subjective instead of inherent, they why is the goal of life?

  • @XTimes. But did Death solve the donkey's problem? Who is going to feed the donkey? Who is going to water him? Who is going to house him? Who is going to clip his nails? Who is going to protect him from the wolves? Who is going to shod his feet? Who is going to take the donkey to the veteranarian when he gets sick?

  • @SocratesTheGadfly @SocratesTheGadfly By which I mean to state that I thought that the philosopher's struggle of "good" and "evil" came about when someone wondered how they should live life, and what meaning is there in living. Certainly "to act upon the good" was the best answer, but only after we found out the meaning of good. So taking out good, what would be the most profitable use of our time on earth.

  • @XTimes Ultimately evil derives from "good intentions". Good and evil are NOT opposites just as war and peace are NOT opposites. These are common misperceptions and falacies that are "accepted" in society. People generally tend to think in terms of opposites but do not necesarily think in terms of consequences for any action or decision that they make. Often times people make decisions especially hastily made decisions without regard of what may happen. The meaning is in the question.

  • I agree that good and evil don't have to be the infinite ends of a line, but to deny correlation may also lead to fallible thoughts. Regardless, that still did not answer the question, what is the most profitable use of our time on earth? Perhaps is there a generalized statement they could equal in magnitude the general of humanity? In other words, something like "Studying Philosophy" as an answer applies to few, and is too specific of an answer, so let's be vague.

  • Oh, and a little thank you for quoting Nietzsche, it made my day.

  • i would weigh what happened to Socrates.....the shadows have ears

  • Sew crates.

  • hehe..no escape girl!!This guy also knows FRENCH.You have to answer it..

  • Socrates on Self-Confidence part 1 of 3

    The Conversation Continues onCNofN 2

    Socrates on Self-Confidence part 1 of 3

    Yes Rick Somewhere in the recesses of my mind,EyE have always "got it"