Philosophers i think, are people who have nothing to do and they think everyday. Sad to say, they have influenced the society greatly, regardless of the western or the eastern civilisation. We have the socratic and judae-christian impact on the western civilisation, the confucious and taoism impact on the chinese society, and the osama-bin-laden impact on the terrorist society? Hahha...
Anyway, what socrates said, was that everyone is rational, and emotions are an obstruction. On the other hand we have the people from the middle ages who thought that the bible is the truth and people are to act within the beliefs of the church. Then we have the enlightenments who sort of agreed with socrates, with their: everyone is rational, therefore they have the right to make their own decision and decide for themselves the best. Afterwhich we have people like Karl Marx who talked about the economy and the capitalists society which decides everything. He said that man have no free will and what they have to do is to follow the economy. We also have funny people like Sigmund Freud and Nietzsche who said that it is the subconscious, the human instinct that is important. They said that human desire are the ones that ruled the body etc etc etc. Then the modernists came back and upheld socratic views, but not soon after the postmodernists came back and stressed on the importance of the relativity of truth, that the truth can never be contained in the language.
After viewing at all these complicated and dunno-wad-de-hell-they-are-trying-to-do ideas, what is exactly the idea that governs the society today?
*sigh* all these ideas are super extreme, aren't they?
Let me see...i think i'll come up with my own philosophy...
we need a balance in everyday life...there is no extreme or exact thing that exists in the world...isn't it?
Anyway...the moral of the story...don't think too much.
