he pre-Socratic philosopher, Thales of Miletus, fell into a well…

he pre-Socratic philosopher, Thales of Miletus, fell into a well…

he pre-Socratic philosopher, Thales of Miletus, fell into a well while gazing at the stars, and a Thracian maid, finding him down there, had to laugh. What point about “hardheaded common sense” and philosophy do Plato and Pieper suggest from this? (a) hardheaded common sense necessarily appears as laughable to person merely of philosophy (b) philosophy is better than hardheaded common sense (c) hardheaded common sense is better than philosophy (d) philosophy necessarily appears as laughable to person merely of hardheaded common sense.

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When physicists ask about their discipline, they step outside of the normal “doing of physics.”
When philosophers ask about their discipline, they are fully within the normal “doing of philosophy.”
. True False Question 2 (1 point) Saved Listen The philosophical act is to step out of the workada…