The Questions Confucius, Socrates, and the Buddha Asked 2500 Years Ago
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This is an except from Mind Macros 05.
“2,500 years ago Confucius, Socrates, and the Buddha were all addressing similar philosophical questions:
What is the best way to run a state?
How do I build a proper world where everyone has a chance to flourish?
How do I live my life?”— From The Path by Michael Puett (View my three takeaways).
In the modern age, it is easy to dismiss the teachings of philosophers as obsolete or irrelevant.
They lived so long ago; what do they know about today’s world?
Yet, we have been asking similar questions about ourselves and the world around us since the beginning of written history. The core questions about human flourishing never change. Even after so many years, we still wrestle with the questions Confucius, Socrates, and Gautama Buddha attempted to answer so long ago. They are as relevant today as they were then. True wisdom endures because the fundamentals are timeless.
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