We can not move a second time into the same river. If that happens then we and the river - both - have changed. Everything changes continuously and nothing is settled, says Heraclitus. Plato also exclaimed, what is seen in nature is only the age of soap bubbles, waiting to break and return no.
Do not ask a philosopher about the contest of the universal queen or the price movement of everyday curly peppers. They are born to ignore the lips, start asking what is the most beautiful, the right or the most ideal. This is why the philosophers became unpopular, besides being hunted down and killed in ancient times. They do not even advocate - as do many people - write long or serious discussions about certain soap bubbles that are only five seconds old.
A flow of 'craze' in philosophy has been delivered by Antisthenes, just like Plato, he is also a student of Socrates. The flow is called Cynical Philosophy, which speaks of a random and floating world of matter as not the source of happiness. Because true happiness lies in the non-dependence of such things.
Antisthenes diverted his knowledge to the phenomenal Diogenes as the Tong Philosopher. It is said that he lives in a barrel with nothing but a shabby coat, a cane, a bag of bread, and sometimes sunshine. One day, he was visited by a ruler of the world's greatest empire Alexander the Great, perhaps the philosopher needed a helping hand. Without turning to the Great, he repeats: shift sideways, you block the sun!
Throughout the history of philosophy, philosophers have embraced and reinforced several streams, but the most intriguing is between two of the three great philosophers of Plato and Aristotle. In the upheaval of mind, Aristotle was the most dissident disciple. Twenty years he absorbed Plato's philosophy and broke it.
Plato was 29 years old when Socrates drank pine toxicity, as punishment too questioned the definition to everyone and left them lying helpless. From there Plato made a sharp bend between the state of fact and the ideal state of utopia. He wrote the Apology for Socrates and then the Episteles and 20 Philosophical Dialogues . The works became intact to be inherited because Plato founded the world's first academy, derived from the words Academus, the hero of Greek lagendaris
The essence of Plato's philosophy is the Idea. Idea according to him is the main image and prime of reality, nonmaterial, eternal, and unchanged. Plato's view of ideas is influenced by Socrates' view of definition.
Plato is also famous for the Myth of the Cave , which he wrote in the Republic. About some people who are confined in the cave with their legs and hands tied. They see in the cave wall there is a shadow of human beings, because there is fire behind it. So what these people see is only those shadows, which they have seen since birth so they think that is reality.
Someone got out of hand, and then was fascinated after seeing the real colors that reflect the shadows. The beauty is the idea and the shadow is the world. From here Plato gave birth to the idea of the most ideal philosophical state as descended from heaven and has never existed. Plato suggested that the state be led by a philosopher, emphasizing substance rather than busy serving the facts of soap bubbles.
Plato is considered too dazzling by Aristotle's more emphasis on empirical evidence. Ackrill JL (1997) in Essays on Plato and Aristotle, said Aristotelian logic is a deductive reasoning system, which is still considered as the basis of every lesson on formal logic.
While in politics, Aristotle believes that the ideal political form is a combination of democracy and monarchy. Aristotle strongly emphasizes the fact of empiricism for knowledge. Aristotelian philosophy is more concerned with logic, but rather ignore the essence like Plato.
From Plato then appears Neoplatonism as a middle ground. This flow attempts to combine the teachings of Plato and Aristotle which is the last peak in the history of Greek philosophy. Popularized by Plotinus of Lycopolis, Egypt in the third century AD. In defense of Plato, so that humans have a cosmic thought that culminates in God and not merely to Aristotle's logic and metaphysics.
Who would have thought that after nearly a thousand years of his death, Aristotle was reborn in the Arabian peninsula. The books of Aristotle were dismantled by Sahara desert scientists who later became the torchlight for the development of science in the seventh century. Aristotle can not be left alone, in the Middle East by the philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averos) he has been harmonized with Islamic Theology, while in Europe, Aristotle is combined with Christian Theology by Thomas Aquinas.
Which means that the power of the brain and human reason can not be left alone to take care of the world. We need the guidance of the Creator, the place of beginning and end. In addition to the Neoplatonists, the Renaissance-era Aristotelian imitators of Jean-Paul Satre, Albert Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir often mention: existence precedes the essence (or reversed it). They gave birth to the flow of Existentialism which had unleashed philosophy from the exclusive scope of its ivory tower, entered into the public world. In the end we all need philosophy, so do not play too long with soap bubbles.