10 Extremely Important Philosophical Questions From History
Do you ever ponder the deep questions? And I don’t mean the basic, common stuff, I mean the really, really deep questions? Or have you ever thought about the incalculable number of minds who’ve spent their entire existence on this earth throughout the course of human history?
From Aristotle to Plato, from Heisenberg to Heidegger, every prominent thinker in the history of the world who’s left their mark had one, major idea that nobody, up until then at least, had ever thought. Even if their ideas were largely syntheses of multiple previous lines of though, they definitely told their tales through a completely new framework, even if discussing something as timeless as teenage love.
Most great thinkers pondered upon many different questions for a long time until they stumbled upon the main ones that they became known for, such as Sir Isaac Newton who had spent most of his life dedicated to bunk science and occultist fantasies, but still managed to stumble upon the missing piece of the scientific puzzle, Newtonian Mechanics, or more generally, physics. Physics radically changed the way we see the world in its day, and over time, Newton’s influence spanned so greatly, that pretty much every aspect of our lives are dominated by it. So too, there are other ideas in the history of deep thought which shook our world in such a…
