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The duty to philosophize: Socrates and Maimonides.
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Jews have a religious duty to philosophize that helps them to understand their intellectual complexity, comprehend their duties as human beings and assist others in understanding their duties. The duty forms a part of the political agenda which aims at rising above the material needs of society. The tendency to philosophize should be inspired not only by wonder, but by the urge to comprehend the truth by transcending petty objectives.
PHILOSOPHY MAY BEGIN IN WONDER, BUT it is sustai...
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; THE LAYMAN'S VIEW OF PHILOSOPHY is hazy at best and proves to be the greatest conversation stopper at a party. Many think it has something to do with the clergy or religion. They are not quite sure of what it is, but they are certain that it is an abstract subject. Indeed, the story is told of a
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What Is Philosophy, Anyway?
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; THE LAYMAN'S VIEW OF PHILOSOPHY is hazy at best and proves to be the greatest conversation stopper at a party. Many think it has something to do with the clergy or religion. They are not quite sure of what it is, but they are certain that it is an abstract subject. Indeed, the story is told of a
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The duty to philosophize: Socrates and Maimonides.
Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; PHILOSOPHY MAY BEGIN IN WONDER, BUT it is sustained by the desire and need to understand; and these latter are the archai, the true grounds for philosophy. Furthermore, this desire to understand is, itself, motivated by a certain conception of the good life and human happiness. If one does not
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(B) OPINION: Today's Philosophy Searches For Self-Esteem, Not Truth.
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Transformative philosophy; Socrates, Wittgenstein, and the democratic spirit of philosophy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Hadot, Pierre. What is Ancient Philosophy?(Book Review)
The Review of Metaphysics
; HADOT, Pierre. What is Ancient Philosophy? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 362 pp. Cloth, $29.95--This is an important and interesting study that elaborates (and reorganizes) the work Hadot began in Exercices spirituals et philosophie antique (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1987),
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47. Take up philosophy.
U.S. News & World Report
; On one point, at least, Socrates was wrong: For some folks, the unexamined life is worth living. But for the majority of us muddling-through types who feel our lives could use some tweaking at the edges--and maybe even at the center--a stiff dose of philosophy may be the very ticket. After all, not
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Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith.(Book review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; KIERKEGAARD AND SOCRATES: A STUDY IN PHILOSOPHY AND FAITH by JACOB HOWLAND Cambridge University Press, 246 pages, $80 With the exception of Nietzsche and those he later influenced, nearly all the philosophers in the received canon of the greats paid at least lip service to the integrity of
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I READ, THEREFORE I LEARN ---- ABOUT PHILOSOPHY.(EDITORIAL)(Review)
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; Byline: Rob Thomas One imagines philosopher/writer Alain de Botton motoring around London with a WWPD? sticker on the bumper of his car, as in What Would Philosophers Do? Just as Christianity teaches that people should use the life of Jesus Christ as an example for their own, de Botton looks at the
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Scott, Gary Alan, editor. Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond.(Book Review)
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