The Fall 🍁

 DUTY Non nobis solum nati sumus [Not for ourselves alone are we born] -Marcus Tullius Cicero “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” ― John Stuart Mill “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.” ― Albert Einstein Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably interconnected.- Geoge Washington Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump, you may be freeing him from being a camel- G.K. Chesterton Be with a leader, when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but leave him when he is wrong- Abraham Lincoln We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect. - Haruki Murakami Do something everyday that you do not want to do, this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - mark Twain The philosophy of Nishkama Karma “One painful duty fulfilled makes the nex...

  GREEK PHILOSOPHY PRE- SOCRATES Ancient Greek Philosophy 6 century BCE, fringes of Mediterranean sea Ancient Greek Philosophy is called Greek Miracle What influenced the philosophy a.Democratic independent poleis gave rise to philosophy [not many autocrats and hence free thinking] b.Greek mythology, sacred places, myths, local deities [example- wok of Homer, Hesoid] c. Travel experiences Philosophers- a. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes [believed water, earth and intelligence to be the beginners of origin of world] b. Xenophanes, Heracllitus, Pythagoras- critiqued anthropomorphism of gods, fore to be the arche of the world, world is made up of numbers c. Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Melissus, Leucippus, Democritus- Only void and matter exists [atomism]. Eleatics believed that only one thing exists and everything else is a manifestation of it. They were also called as Monists. d. Sophists - Critical thinking and philosophical relativism, attacked traditional thinking, gods, morality. T...