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Article: Socrates: mentor for humanists. (Great Minds).
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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We can draw energy, inspiration, and strategies from the gadfly who launched the Western tradition of independent thinking 2,500 years ago.
As humanists, it is natural for us to look to our fellow human beings for the values and motivation to become all we are capable of being. As we strive to make the most of our lives, our work, and our world, we should find our mentors among the best thinkers and doers of all ages. We should make ourselves part of what Wordsworth called "the one Great Society alone on Earth--the Noble Living and the Noble Dead."
Socrates has been such a figure for generations of men and women of reason in every generation. And today ...
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