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The word ‘philosopher’ comes from Greek words meaning ‘love of wisdom.’ The Western tradition in philosophy, the one that this book follows, spread from Ancient Greece across large parts of the world, at time cross-fertilized by ideas from the East. The kind of wisdom that it values is based on argument, reasoning and asking question, not on believing thing simply because someone important had told you they are true. Wisdom for Socrates was not knowing lots of facts, or knowing how to do something. It meant understanding the true nature of our existence, including the limits of what we can know. Philosophers today are doing more or less what Socrates was doing: asking tough questions, looking a reasons and evidence, struggling to answer some of the most important questions we ask ourselves about the nature of reality and how we should live. …… ~ Page 3

……. All the great philosophers have been sceptics in this sense. It is the opposite of dogmatism. Someone who is dogmatic is very confident that they know the truth. Philosophers challenge dogma. They ask why people believe what they do, what sort of evidence they have to support their conclusions. That was Socrates and Aristotle did and it is what present day philosophers to do. But they don’t do this just for the sake of being difficult. This point of moderate philosophical scepticism is to get closer to the truth, or at least to reveal how little we know or we can know….. Page 20

The Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 B.C) argued that fear of death was a waste of time and based on bad logic. It was a state of mind to be overcome. If you think clearly about it, death shouldn’t be frightening at all. Once you get your thinking straight you’ll enjoy your time here much more - which he believed, was to make your life go better, to help you find happiness. Some people believe that it is morbid to dwell on your own death, but for Epicurus it was a way of making living more intense. ~ Page 23
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A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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