It's the idea of Plato: our soul/mind (whatever we call it) can be viewed as two horses: one, very beautiful, the other not. And we are sitting on the carriage and have to manage the two horses in order to work together... This may be the reason why we can be happier than animals, but also the reason why we can be much more sad than them Also it is the reason why only we humans have religions.

Ideas of Spock, Hirgoyen, Plato, Aristoteles, Heidegger, Miller, the Script, the Beatles... And a d...

Socrates didn't operate as a midwife - contrary to what he said about himself.

Nor is it that God sent Adam to the world and then realised he had to send somebody extra, Eve,

in order to save it.