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It was the dawn of an era that would Mindset it was in its prime utterly Costs” as the nihilists would have had it
Define our own and yet it is really Alien to it. For instance the Greeks Or a “whatever is presently the most
Only from mere fragments that our world has Had no notion of sin. For them all wrong Likely case” as stated by the stoic
Moulded its vague distorted self image. Doing was merely disapproval, And eclectic schools. They recognised
The task that we face today of living An error to be corrected. This was That nature is of itself and does not
Beyond eternal deceptive values A far healthier and responsible Conform to any form of intelligence,
Is not the first such attempt. In ancient Attitude than to suggest upon As the later thinkers would have it.
Greece before the coming of the golden Damnation, it appealed to people’s In a way many of their theories were
Age, before the famous figures of later Minds instead of scaring them into Completely wrong. They were not scientists
Antiquity, there was an early effort Submission. With this and many of their In the way we understand today
To transcend the metaphysical and Other methods, the Greeks achieved a richness Testing theories against empirical
To understand the world in real terms. Of human life, a full development Evidence. Yet they were the founders,
Such inquisitive healthy mindedness Of human gifts and faculties, which form The first to have a go at understanding
Did not last long, yet it was a first failed The basis for anything forward thinking The world properly. These along with
Attempt at that which occupies us today. And progressive to this day. The stoic’s The later Epicureans who were
This form of rational enquiry Conception of morality was Roughly contemporary with the time
Did not last long but it offered a brief A logical outlook. The essential Of Socrates and briefly posed something
Moment of sanity in a history Nature of man lies in his reason, and Of an opposition to the Socratic
That is otherwise devoid of it. Goodness consists in obeying reason. Method, which went against every instinct
It was an era before the coming If anything defined these minds it was Definably Hellenic. Anaximander
Of Christianity and although it A not trying to take things too easily Was one of the first rational inquirers.
Eventually lead to the Christian On ones mind, in a way a “truth at all He brought a form of understanding