The Philosophy of the Christians: Agape (Love)

Philosophy in Greece had discovered the power of Eros (Love) as that mediating tension which makes possible the ascent from the material world to the spiritual one. Christianity, instead, speaks of love as AGAPE. Agape is the love, which belongs primarily to God. Because of that love, God has descended among men in order to rescue them. For the Greeks only man is capable of loving, whereas for, the Christians only God is the true lover. The Christian can learn agape by means of a radical conversion that brings him to imitate God.

The Philosophy of the Christians: Anthropocentrism

Greek thought is mainly Cosmo-centric: man and cosmos are always correlated rather than sharply differentiated, the reason bein that both possess life and soul. Man is not the highest being in the cosmos as Aristotle witness: "man is not the best thing in the world....for there are other things much more divine in their nastier even than man, for example, most conspicuously, the bodies of which the heavens are framed."(Nic. Eth. VI, 7, 1141a 23, 1141b 1). According to biblical thought, instead, man is at the centre of the world and the highest creature, the reason being that "God created him in his image; in the divine image he created him" (Gen. 1:27; Ps. 8). Thus for the Bible, everything in the world together with history is centred on man.

Socrate; Life and Philosophy

For the Greeks, the name Socrates formed a watershed in history of their philosophy. The reason they give for this is that he turned men's eyes from the s peculation about the nature of the physical world, which had been characteristics of the pre-socratic period, and concentrated attention in the problems of human life. Socrates was said to be born in 470 or 469BC. He was married to Xarithipee, had three sons, one as a youth during the time of his execution. He was a native of Athens, son of Sophroniseus and Phaenarete. According to Plato, Socrate died at the age of seventy. His father was a sculptor/stonemason and his mother a midwife. He was accused of impiety and corrupting young men by Meletus. Socrate was found guilty of refusing to recognise the gods by the state, of corrupting the youth. The penalty demanded was death.

What is Life?

What is life he asked? A mistery i answer; to things that generations can't answer. A box of mistery that always put you on your feet. You don't know what to expect and things you expect can turn around for good or bad.
How then can this mistery be solved?
Solving the mistery of life is like trying to understand God, the mistery can not be solved or understood, but one can learn from the experience of the never ending mistery. Understanding life is like understanding God, and understanding God is like understanding life and death, and life and death is a step to understand the mistery. If we can't understand the mistery, then, we try to live with it and wait for time to resolve it.