My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. ... It is true that we also can write poems with our mind and make paintings and music and invent theories and philosophies. ... Ideas about knowledge and truth form a very essential part of Western philosophy and that also is understandable since we are human because of that extra mental capability we have, our mind, our spirit, our ratio. ... Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. Actuall...

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Soren Kierkegaard, in his struggle to understand human existence, believed that time is a major factor for this understanding. As humans, we exist in time, and therefore it is an aspect of human nature, given that anything human entails human nature. The aim in this paper is to focus on the concept of "the eternal" and how it relates to the human being. In order to do this we will need to develop Kierkegaard's conception of the self, and the difference between spatialized time and life time. In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ...

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