... increasingly difficult. Philosophers maintain that consequences for one's own actions must be taken into consideration, many times in spite of their society persecuting them for their radical standpoints. Socrates suffered the consequences of "corrupting the youth" by an ancient Athenian court. As a brilliant philosopher hundreds of years ahead of his civilization who was seeking to define the ... societal problems stemming from widespread indoctrination by religion rather than acts of piousness directed at particular deities. Plato describes his teacher as a man who sought social justic...

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... men (and learn from their mistakes) we can be sublime. Ralph Waldo Emerson acknowledged another aspect of idealism. "Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever too flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."" ("Self-Reliance-). Emerson ... ...

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