... of something and the truth about it? These questions and many more are not easily answered or are, perhaps, impossible to answer. But as rational beings we have the capacity to think deeply and logically about them and come up with an idea it try to explain them. This is what ... the study of philosophy is all about: the rational attempt to formulate, understand and answer fundamental questions. Concerning the debate between appearance and reality, we can look to a celebrated philosopher, who lived in ... the 4th century B.C.E, but is still read and studied today, this person being Plat...

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... Athens that affects the western civilization is the philosophy of the time. Some of the great philosophers in Athens, besides the law giver, Solon, were Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Socrates was a very ugly, but very wise man. He would go around asking questions that was simple to answer and explore those answers with further questioning until the questions become unanswerable. His questioning frustrated ... felt the citizens of Athens could not create justice and govern themselves. He wrote a book, The Republic, in which he illustrates his perfect society. This book was practiced by Eur...

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