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Occupy your mind 101

Revered: Socrates PIC: HISTORY SKILLS
Revered: Socrates PIC: HISTORY SKILLS

The third Thursday of November is designated by UNESCO, a UN agency on education, as the annual World Philosophy Day. It is a day intended to reaffirm the vital role that philosophy plays in our private lives as well as in public affairs.

Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC), the founder of Western philosophy, its first martyr, and the first public intellectual, said that philosophy is a task of examining and investigating things, and to be critical about concepts that underlay everything. Philosophy is thus the substratum of all knowledge and a meditation that connects man to God.

Because we ought to love knowledge and in turn God, instinctively they will both occupy our mind because they are important to us.

Editor's Comment
Tana project a welcome development

Whilst the project received mixed reactions from members of the public, the project is indeed a welcome development, which needs to be implemented as soon as possible. Many shared their opinion, with those against the project decrying that if implemented, it will kill the already struggling public transport industry.Many countries around the world have state-run public transport, and those who have travelled to such countries will give testimony...

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