Know Thyself through PHILOSOPHY:
In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates discusses what he believes happens to the soul after you die. He discusses the evils that exist in the flesh, or, the body. In an attempt to modernize the following, I thought…what word best replaces ‘body’ that makes sense today? Social Media? AI? Billionaires? Then I came up with it: GREED
As long as we have Greed, and this evil can mingle with our soul, we shall never completely attain what we desire, namely truth. For Greed‘s forever wasting our time with its demands. Whenever it is ill it hinders us in our pursuit of real being. It fills us with passions, desires, fears, and all kinds of imaginings and foolishness. Greed alone, and its desires, cause wars, social divisiveness, and battles: for the origin of all war is the desire for wealth, and we are forced to pursue wealth because we are enslaved by the wishes of Greed. On account of all this, we have no leasure for philosophy. Even if we manage to free ourselves from Greed for awhile, and try to examine some matter, it hinders us at every step of our inquiry, causing confusion and trouble and panic, so that we cannot see the truth for it. Truly we have learned that if we are to have any pure knowledge at all, we must be freed from Greed.
-Plato
Can YOU come up with a better replacement?
Last Updated on 09/06/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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