Thursday, December 24, 2009

Melete Thanatou

The entire task of philosophy can be summed up as melete thanatou - "mindfulness of death."

-Plato

2 comments:

daniela rusu said...

Once, i thought that life is really a melete thanatou, a continous preparing for death. now i no longer think that. it is my life-long experience. life is for me now(and i have discovered that it has always been) a continous struggle for attaining excelence, as a complete human being, and as a professionist. i have read ben carsons' "think big" and i have seen that he also thinks that. daniela rusu, bucharest

daniela rusu said...

yesterday, i wrote a comment on "melete thanatou". i would like to complete it today and tell you a few things about ben carsons' book "think big". think big, the title of the book, is an acrostic: each letter in the title is the name of a chapter in the book and the names of the chapters are the elements one needs in order to achieve excellence in life as a fully fulfilled human being and as a brilliant specialist in one's own profession. it is a wonderful book. i have enjoyed it tremendously. you should read it. think big is a must in life. as were once the words to live by of PLATO.