Phillip Lund
Director of Faith Development and Congregational Growth for the Prairie Star District and the MidAmerica region of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Whew!
Uu2020. Lifelong Faith - Home. Faith Formation Learning Exchange - Home. Faith Formation 2020 - Home. FF 2020 Strategies & Resources - Faith Formation for the 21st Century Plato & Socrates. Plato and Socrates, two of the most famous philosophers of all time, were figureheads with the birth of philosophy, generally claiming to be born in Ancient Greece.
Plato considered Socrates to be his mentor and, thusly, much of what is known about Socrates and his philosophies comes from Plato himself. These two had a great deal to propound on the nature of the world, not limited to the purpose and functions of art. It has been proposed that Plato might have been a poet before he came under the influence of Socrates and became a philosopher. Many of his Dialogues have a very poetic nature to them and he is a wonderfully crafted storyteller. However, while seeming to hold art in a very high esteem, these two also considered art to be a very dangerous thing. Art is something, which imitates reality. Related Post Schopenhauer – Art Definition from Philosophy Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher most active during the middle 1800s.
Plato's Academy mosaic from Pompeii. Socrates. The term “philosopher” usually conjures up images of a thinker, a scholar, a sage.
Philosophers are men and women equipped with the ability to reason. They study ethics and logic and what it means “to be.” Which calls to mind a question that the parents of a philosophy major might ask: What is their son or daughter planning “to be” when they graduate? Catholic University requires its undergraduates to take philosophy, and approximately 3.5 percent of them major in the subject — a percentage that equals or exceeds that of any other university in the United States, according to Rev. Kurt Pritzl, O.P., dean of the School of Philosophy. While Father Pritzl says he wants to see “scholars of a high caliber” graduating from the School of Philosophy, he also knows that, logically, there aren’t enough jobs in academia for every philosophy graduate. “We want to see [all our philosophy majors] figure out how to use the gifts they’ve been given and figure out the Truth,” Father Pritzl says. Jesus6. The Jewish Jesus. Jesus was a Jew.
Everyone knows that, don't they? Well, it would seem that they do and they don't. It is certainly not the view of most Christians, nor is it common knowledge among atheists or even Jews, that Jesus was to the brim a Jew, not incidentally or as a matter of temporal accident a Jew, not, in Jonathan Miller's joke, Jewish, but a Jew by faith, by temperament and by spiritual ambition; a Jew in his relentless ethicising, in his love of quibbling and legalistics, in his fondness - frankly, to the point of tiresomeness sometimes - for extended metaphors and sermons wrapped in parables, and in the apocalyptic urgency of his teaching. A Jew, in other words, on unambiguously Jewish business. This much you would not gather from nativity narratives, from hymns and carols, or from the art that fills the churches of Christendom.
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