What does ancient philosophy reinforce about the significance of existence, life?
Part II of II
...This would lead to the concept that the whole had no choice but to be the total of all the numbers, thus the whole was equal to the sum of its parts.
Total awareness was equal to the sum of individual, unique, aware essences.
Ancient philosophy subscribed to the basic perception of what we think we understand today.
The only difference lies in the details. Ancient philosophy could not place pieces of the puzzle made up of entropy, topology, Homo, ontology, Islam, Christianity… because they did not exist.
Today, philosophy can use these pieces to construct more of the puzzle to give us a more complete view of the whole picture.
Before philosophy can do this, however, philosophy must decide to do so, and modern philosophy has not made the decision to do so.
The ancient philosophers still have much to offer us.
The ancient philosophers, like old craft masters, have an understanding to offer us that the primary purpose of philosophy is to develop an ongoing unified view, an ongoing living, universal philosophy.
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The process of developing a universal philosophy, a unified view, is nothing less than what the ancient philosophers did thousands of years ago using the information they had available to them.
The process they used was one of combining the three means we have of perceiving what it is we are and why we exist: faith – religion, observation – science, and reason – philosophy.