Occupy your mind 101

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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.

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