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. ... That also was the question Plato asked himself about 400 years before Christ. Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. Actually with them the history of Western philosophy ...

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Although he has provided the world with his thoughts, that ring persistently throughout the minds of many whom study his philosophies, he was not a teacher. ... Both statements to be looked at come from Plato's, Gorgias. ... It is my belief that Socrates already knew that he didn't want to escape but he couldn't past up what could be his last opportunity do what he does as a philosopher and that was speak about philosophy. ... This feeling can very well be the definition of how he felt about his love for philosophy. ...

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