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The Examined Life

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Did the Greeks Think That Philosophy Was the Best Way to Examine Life?

Greeks thought that the world was essentially rationally comprehensible. They had what has been termed a kind of synoptic view of knowledge. What you learnt one branch of knowledge would feedback into the others. In greek philosophy, i think there is less of a division between different branches of knowledge.

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