Of the ancient Greeks' "know thyself", would our pacifistic feelings be accepted as anything but a pathology? How much 'know' do I need to use to be 'philosophical'?


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Many questions in one !

The much you ask so you can be “appointed "as a Philosopher is answered by the word ALL or everything no less than that!.

A Philosopher knows in perfect level about everything that exists both in the world of the Gods and in our world CONSISTENT OF HEAVY MATERIAL!

The first part of your question, about, if a pacifist is seen as a pathological state I will dear to answer through few words that are dangerous as normally I had to explain more about it but I dont have so much time and space to do it… so to be a pacifist in ancient Greece is a state that is non existent as EVERYTHING IN OUR MATERIAL WORLD IS VIBRATING.

explained quick: POLEMOS(war) in Greek is derived from the verb to VIBRATE. In the universe literally all that exists in it VIBRATES!!!! So polemos is the normal!!! BUT, ALL THESE WARS(polemos) AS A WHOLE RESULTS IN PIECE AND THAT IS WHY THE UNIVERSE EXISTS AND NOT DISAPPEARS.

So, according to Greeks and especially according to Aristoteles your mind has to be like in a combat namely in a fighting state. (ΝΟΥΣ ΟΙΟΝ ΕΝ ΜΑΧΗ) This state is a combat state that the Hindu people or the Buddhists believe that they can reach once through meditation(in the Greek sense through combat or war as they have to use their mind even if they try to achieve a state that is mindless…) before they leave this earth.!… Good luck.. to those that think that they can do it…. as the universe is full of vibrations(wars) that is impossible to get rid off and that is why the method of achieving piece has to go through other technics….. Complicated and confusing as the last one I wrote here is contradicting what I said before…

It is almost a schizophrenic problem for those that are not known with the Greek way.

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I can’t imagine what pacifism has to do with the issue of self-knowledge.

You don’t need to know anything to be philosohical. One of the biggest points made about Socrates is that he claimed only to be a lover of wisdom, not actually wise and having some or all of the answers. Loving wisdom means being attracted to wisdom and desiring to move towards it. He passionately sought after wisdom using his “Socratic method”. That is what makes him a philosopher.

 

The Oracle at Delphi did not urge us to ‘Know Thy Philosophy’. It was pointedly, ‘Know Thyself’.

I am going to assume you know the difference.

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What do you mean by pacifistic feelings? Do you mean non-violence and acceptance towards others, or do you mean acceptance of self and the ability to ponder one’s own internal feelings?

Both of these attitudes are conducive to knowing one’self.

 

Just understand youself, weaknesses, strengths, delusions, fears, swollen dreams, shrivelled hopes, basics, desires, plans, visions, real strengths, flaws…

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I suggest you read the Phaedrus of Plato. Philosophy begins with the madness of Eros. It is anything but pacific. But is is demonic or divine; that is the question.



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