Sumit Asok’s Reviews > The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers > Status Update

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle - such a marvel of wisdom, Reading through them, gives me a strong feeling about how the civilisation fall over the past 2000 years. The great truths of today, that we learnt as discovered around 18 and 19 centuries Where already postulated from their times...400 300 BC

Plato believes that a nation cannot be strong without belief in god. A mere cosmic force, or first cause, or elan vital, that was not a person, could hardly inspire hope, or devotion, or sacrifice; it could not offer comfort to the hearts of the distressed,