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The Duality of Human NAture
Title: The Duality of Human NAture
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 509 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Duality of Human NAture
The Duality of Human Nature
Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, left us a very important heritage giving knowledge and understanding of the ancient Greek way of thinking that can be applied to modern world. One of the most memorable words of wisdom, “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live”, shows the duality of human nature.
This saying is a depiction of how people …showed first 75 words of 509 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 509 total…contrived to put so much meaning in the message, that people still now days find themselves in awe of how perfect he described the duality of human nature in one sentence.
The overriding strengths of Socrates were his dependence on reason and that he did not seem to need certainty in his life, only virtue. The core to understanding human nature for Socrates rested in accepting that he and everybody else knew nothing (Apology 23-23b).
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