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Wealth Actually—and do not think this is unimportant—we are talking about wealth on both sides. On the paternal side, we note that Cleinias provided, at his own expense, a warship for the state. On the Alcmeonids’ side, we know that they were related, after being......
Alcibiades needs no introduction: Plato has already provided that, on one unforgettable page. In the Symposium, he imagines a meeting of famous men who, over dinner, are discussing love. There are a lot of people there. They are talking, listening, the dialogue progresses. But then,......
This literary ploy of Plato’s makes it difficult to distill out of the dialogues what is historically true of Socrates, the man who wandered barefoot through the Athenian agora in a not terribly clean chitōn and persistently asked questions whose points were difficult to grasp,......
The pursuit of Knowledge is constant. So, although Philosophy within the centuries has replied in even to the most integral human-concerned queries, and the act of travelling among the upper paths of meditation of the intelligentsia who lived before our times, is beyond the limit of excitement and atonement, nowadays the sciences of Biology and Psychology accompanied with their verified statistics, come to corroborate the theory according to which our behaviour depends even up to 50% on our genetic identity and up to 50% or more on the influences we receive from our surroundings. Moreover, the major influence is exerted during our infancy or childhood, which is filed in our subconscious and it is subsequently manifested in all of our behavioural reactions.
This kind of knowledge is considered as a tremendous asset in the hands of those who possess it, since it is remarkably helpful in identifying themselves (self-awareness), which is an indispensable prerequisite not only for the conduct of a sentient life, which is both meaningful and joyful, but also for the creation and maintenance of bonds with the significant people of their life.
