WISDOM PROVERBS
Personal development
well, mind
5 Best Philosophical Proverbs About Personal Wisdom
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Written by: Charlene Mind'je F.
Place: Kigali-Rwanda
Time reading : 3 min
Proverbs are simple and insightful traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Many of our lived ancestors, and many men whose rational intelligence (wisdom), have left us numerous pieces of advice based on their own experiences and thoughts about how to be consistent with the standards of the situations we face, until the day here.
So use these wonders to guide your thoughts towards a light that allows you to see clearly the circumstances and instances of your life and that of others, in order to enrich your quality of life. This should apply to anyone who claims to be a moral agent.
Of these wise men, this article offers you the best philosophical proverbs for well-known philosophers :
1."I know that I know nothing"
Socrates, in the Apology of Socrates and the Meno of Plato (4th century BC)
Everyone thinks they know their area of expertise well and often have fixed ideas about what is true or false, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. But Socrates, questions everyone, especially those who claim to know everything and shows them, with malice, their ignorance. There are indubitable ideas and absolute values, but to hope to discover them, one must first have the courage to confess one's ignorance.
2.“Man is a political animal”
Aristotle, Politics (4th century BC)
By his nature, sociable and talkative, man is made to assemble with others. In particular, it needs others to build an autonomous community governed by rules of justice that have been decided by its members. We find fulfillment in this practice, in ethical and political relations with our fellow human beings.
3.“Man was born free, and everywhere he is in irons”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the social contract (1762)
For Rousseau, man is naturally good and harmless, made to live in peace with others. And yet, society is built on false values, such as lies, glory or self-esteem. Result: the man, who should flourish, finds himself at the mercy of despots and princes who steal his power to decide with others how he wants to live. We must change our organization and invent a social contract that gives us freedom, that of the citizen, which requires obedience to the laws that we have chosen ourselves.
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4.“Dare to know! "
Immanuel Kant, What is the Enlightenment? (1784)
Many men and women are convinced that they do not have the tools and knowledge to become autonomous in their decisions. They think that princes, priests, and scholars hold the truth and are authorized to tell them what to think and do. But the movement of the Enlightenment, in the 18th century, enjoins us on the contrary to seek information ourselves and to express our opinions. Nevertheless, to carry out this project, you have to shake yourself up a bit and understand that knowledge is accessible to anyone of goodwill.
5. You never bathe twice in the same river”
Heraclitus, Fragments (6th-5th c. BC)
No offense to the philosophers who exalt unity, eternity, and Being with a capital E, nothing is stable, and nothing is permanent in the world and in the cosmos. Even the river in which we bathe is never the same because its current carries everything away. We must not hope to find a fixed anchor point, neither in reality nor in ideas. Everything is movement, change, becoming. And this is very well so!
REFERENCE
Magazine Philosophy
Michel Eltchaninoff
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