Genius Of The Ancient World

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November 2017
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Confucius is considered the first Chinese thinker to take a systematic, philosophical approach to the social, political and moral challenges of his world. Born in a chaotic, violent age, he believed that harmony could be restored through the example of the sage rulers of history. He was a great innovator and a pioneer in ...
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Socrates was born in Athens during a creative but tumultuous period of Greek history. Athens had given birth to democracy and became a hotbed of new philosophical ideas. Socrates would become, arguably, its most vocal and charismatic thinker. His technique, a systematic form of question and answer, ‘the Socratic method’, w...
March 2017
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Buddha - In his 20s the Buddha abandoned his family and homeland, to embark on an ambitious philosophical quest: to find a solution to human suffering. On the Indian plains he experienced the challenging ideas and extreme methods of wandering truth seekers. He found finally attained enlightenment through nirvana: a state o...
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