Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Plato and Socrates

I think one of the most beautiful things about youth is how naive a child starts out. For example when you are a kid you are told Santa is real, and that they should put their tooth under their pillow so the tooth fairy can leave money. Being a kid (youth) is so beautiful because they are not aware of the worlds problems, so they have nothing to worry about making them have such a great simple outlook on life. Because youth has this simple out look on life, without worry and care free it makes them beautiful. As kids grow older they start to learn that things such as the tooth fairy and Santa do not exist. They then learn about problems around the world and in their own life and no longer have a simple outlook on life. These problems and worries that come with age take away from their innocence and care free way of life. Therefore taking away the natural beauty a child has, their innocence.
Plato and Socrates, Socrates was the first of the three great Athenian philosophers. He was born in 469 BC, In his mid forties he began questioning things like "what is wisdom?" and "what is beauty?". He decided that he would ask people he met these questions to come up with some ideas for answers. The Socrates encouraged people to answer these questions by asking even more questions. Plato followed these ideas and wrote them down, he himself also began to write down his own ideas on philosophy. Today there is an idea on the perfect human form. Here in America the ideal perfect body for a woman is mostly skinny, busty, and tall. This "perfect" human form does not exist and is very unrealistic. This "perfect" human form is different every where around the world.
I do not have an idea on the perfect human form but I have asked a couple of people on what they think the "perfect" human form is.

Female,13.
"I think that there is no real perfect body. What everyone thinks is an ideal body is very unrealistic"

1 comment:

Allegra! said...

Stephanie.....you sounds like such a wise philosopher when you write.