:In Hippias’s dialogue with Plato, Socrates is quoted as saying

But, Hippias, what precisely is the reason why those men of old, whose names are a byword

for wisdom – Pittacus and Bias, and the associates of Thales of Miletus, and those who

came later, down to Anaxagoras – all of them, or most of them, apparently refrained from

?public activity

:Hippias replies

Why do you think, Socrates? Weren’t they just lacking in ability, and the competence to

?reach an understanding of both the public and private spheres

Nevertheless, since philosophers live in the midst of the being of humanity, they have no

choice but confronting life’s problems and meeting life’s needs, the problems of people,

all people: the poor and the rich, the old, the young and the child, the good and the bad,

the submissive and the rebellious, the sad and the joyful, the homeless, the refugee and

the orphan, and the bereaved, the hungry and the cold, the lover and the unemployed,

the victims of slavery and the oppressed, the longing, the yearning, the haters, the lovers,

the criminal, the influential, the weak, the strong, the aspiring, the contented, the noble,

the lowly, the oppressive, the oppressed, the pessimist, the optimist, the indifferent, the

alienated, the objectifying, the foolish, the absurd, the generous, the stingy, the fighter, the

opportunist, the ignorant, the scholar, the racist, the tolerant, the pretender, the liar, the

truthful, the deceitful, the ordinary, the familiar, the astonishing, and the contemplative

All of these are the true sources of the great questions of philosophy related to being

With the philosophy of values, life, death and destiny. Yes, philosophy arose from thinking

about the problems of people’s daily lives, from the never-ending historical determinants

.of human existence

:In Hippias’s dialogue with Plato, Socrates is quoted as saying

But, Hippias, what precisely is the reason why those men of old, whose names are a byword

for wisdom – Pittacus and Bias, and the associates of Thales of Miletus, and those who

came later, down to Anaxagoras – all of them, or most of them, apparently refrained from

?public activity

:Hippias replies

Why do you think, Socrates? Weren’t they just lacking in ability, and the competence to

?reach an understanding of both the public and private spheres

Nevertheless, since philosophers live in the midst of the being of humanity, they have no

choice but confronting life’s problems and meeting life’s needs, the problems of people,

all people: the poor and the rich, the old, the young and the child, the good and the bad,

the submissive and the rebellious, the sad and the joyful, the homeless, the refugee and

the orphan, and the bereaved, the hungry and the cold, the lover and the unemployed,

the victims of slavery and the oppressed, the longing, the yearning, the haters, the lovers,

the criminal, the influential, the weak, the strong, the aspiring, the contented, the noble,

the lowly, the oppressive, the oppressed, the pessimist, the optimist, the indifferent, the

alienated, the objectifying, the foolish, the absurd, the generous, the stingy, the fighter, the

opportunist, the ignorant, the scholar, the racist, the tolerant, the pretender, the liar, the

truthful, the deceitful, the ordinary, the familiar, the astonishing, and the contemplative

All of these are the true sources of the great questions of philosophy related to being

With the philosophy of values, life, death and destiny. Yes, philosophy arose from thinking

about the problems of people’s daily lives, from the never-ending historical determinants

.of human existence