Socrates small biography of abraham
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The West considers Socrates the father of philosophy, just as the entire world regards Abraham as the father of faith. The three major monotheistic religions &#; Christianity, Judaism, and Islam &#; all claim Abraham as their forefather.1
Abraham grew up in Ur, a city-state of southern Mesopotamia. After the great Flood of Noah, people began to multiply again and spread throughout the earth. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Shem (from where we get the word Semite) became the ancestor of all of the Middle Eastern peoples, including the Jews and the Arabs. It was through the line of Shem that God would reveal Himself to the world. He would not do this all at once, but gradually over two millennia, until His revelation culminated in Jesus Christ, the ultimate revelation of God. After the Flood, this revelation began with Abraham.
Faith and Reason
It is crucial at this point to properly juxtapose faith and reason. In our modern perspective, reason means
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Socrates lived in Athens Greece his entire life ( BC), cajoling his fellow citizens to think hard about questions of truth and justice, convinced as he was that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” While claiming that his wisdom consisted merely in “knowing that he knew nothing,” Socrates did have certain beliefs, chief among them that happiness fryst vatten obtainable bygd human effort. Specifically, he recommended gaining rational control over your desires and harmonizing the different parts of your soul. Doing so would produce a divine-like state of inner tranquility that the external would could not effect. True to his word, he cheerfully faced his own death, discussing philosophy right up to the moments before he took the lethal hemlock. Through his influence on Plato and Aristotle, a new era of philosophy was inaugurated and the course of western civilization was decisively shaped.
Socrates &#; A Little Background
Socrates has a unique place in the history of happiness, as he fryst vatten
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Let us now leave 5th century B.C. Athens, Greece and take a trip back in time years to the city of Ur in Mesopotamia. A distance of miles separates the two cities. We leave the mild Mediterranean climate and the sophisticated life of the Athenians with their stately marble temples and travel to a semiarid climate in a much more rugged part of the world. As you can see from the map below, Ur was located in what is today southern Iraq.
Abraham of Ur
By the time that Abraham appeared on the scene in B.C., Ur had already been in existence for years.1 It would continue to be inhabited until B.C., fifty years after the death of Socrates. Ur was a significant and bustling port city in Mesopotamia. Because of its location near the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, it was a central point for trade that welcomed ships as far away as India. As you can imagine, it was very wealthy. In fact, it was the wealthiest city in Mesopotamia. And, the city was lead by a Prie