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This 3 page paper examines the philosophical ideas of Socrates, Thoreau, Huxley, Pieper and Frankl and argues that Thoreau is least reasonable and Frankl, most reasonable and why. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to decide who seems most reasonable, and who seems least reasonable, and why. Well start with a very brief rundown of each mans philosophical position and go from there. Socrates
is one of the fathers of philosophy; a giant in the field and one of its founders. If we have to pick one thing for which he is known, it
is probably his "moral concepts" which one source defines as "the concept is that of which all think when they speak of a thing. In the rational part of every
man there exist some notions which are common to all and hence enjoy universality and necessity, and which form the substratum of true understanding or knowledge" (The philosophy of Socrates,
2003). Thoreau was a transcendentalist, finding the meaning of mans life in nature; and Huxley described dystopian societies; it wasnt the means these societies employed so much as their ultimate
ends that he decried (Matter, 1975). In other words, the ideal society was something that he felt should not be attempted. Frankl did the impossible: he found something positive in
the concentration camps; his philosophy that we can choose our attitude "in any given set of circumstances" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). And Pieper warned that "work was inexorably and
quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leaving no time for leisure, and he feared we
would "all become proletarians"-cogs in a machine (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). So, which of these is most reasonable and which least? "Reasonable" presumably means reasonable to us as we
live today, and the thing is that all of these ways of thinking seem reasonable, so were down to splitting hairs and trying to decide among various shades of meaning.
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