Sublime

A philosophy is the aggregate of your attitudes toward fundamental matters and is derived from a process of consciously thinking about critical issues and developing rational reasons for holding one particular belief or position rather than another.

J’ai envie de vous parler d’Épicure, ce sage penseur de la Grèce antique. Il était convaincu, comme tout être doué de raison, qu’il n’y a pas de vie dans l’au-delà et qu’il nous faut mener la seule et unique existence qui est la nôtre dans la paix et la joie autant qu’il est possible. Quel but donner à sa vie ? La réponse se trouve, selon lui, dans

Philosophy begins, and in my view must end, as an attempt to answer real questions asked by real people.

philosophers thought that besides teaching their pupils how to persuade, they should teach them how to live well. Consequently, according to the historian H. I. Marrou, in their teaching they emphasized “the moral aspect of education, the development of the personality and the inner life.”5 In the course of doing this, many philosophers provided th