SOCRATES or THE POWER OF THINKING

ENJOY PHILOSOPHY MEETS WEEKLY EVERY SUNDAY BETWEEN 11.00 AND 14.00 AT EDUARDO VII PARK, HERE:\*\* [https://goo.gl/maps/5e3jKFEweXkNvDdK6](https://goo.gl/maps/5e3jKFEweXkNvDdK6) **ITS THE GARDEN BETWEEN THE “CARLOS LOPES PAVILLION” AND THE “PRAIA NO PARQUE” RESTAURANT AT EDUARDO VII PARK.** THIS IS A GROUP FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN ENJOYING PHILOSOPHY. NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED. ONLY ETERNAL CURIOSITY AND THE PLEASURE OF KNOWLEDGE. PLS KEEP UPDATED of any changes and updates on our WhatsApp Group: [Enjoy Philosophy Lisbon Group Access-Link](https://chat.whatsapp.com/EgaLvlLCAbSL00cYmhpOSu) We will learn, debate, enjoy and investigate philosophers and diverse themes from the philosophical perspective. Each reunion is structured as a conversation among all attendees about that day s philosopher softly moderated by the organizer. The conversation will kick-off from the very brief suggested reading providing easy access to all attendees both to the philosopher and the conversation. Let´s be greek and dive today on… SOCRATES  (470 – 399 BC). the first person **in history to teach people to think... Nothing more... and nothing less. And he shook the world to the point that we are here, 25 centuries later, remembering him and his feat... and was condemned to death for doing so. The revolutionary power of thinking appeared from the beginning, with astonishing philosophical beauty, when this wise beggar called Socrates started simply asking his fellow citizen what was for them love, courage. god, beauty... This simple process universally known as DIALECTICS, the first attempt to create a method for thinking based on reason implied a deep questioning of our values and concepts as individuals, and therefore, since most of our concepts are socially acquired... seriously challenging the values and principles of the society we live in... without swords, just with words... In a kitchen, in a garden, in a walk or in a prison... the everlasting freedom of human thinking with its splendorous power flies at unprecedented high over all possible landscapes... ethics, physics, metaphysics, politics, arts...** **From Socrates on.. this is the roadmap of any ambitious mind... analyze your concepts, think, challenge your presumptions, think, find the contradictions, think, arrive to conclusions, think, be loyal to your answers,,, THINK... and this eternally beautiful process that saved and still saves us from so many things... Can be shared... Thinking together makes community, society... All of that is in Socrates work.** **And, from the specifically philosophical point of view, something spectacular happens with Socrates as he frames the environment for the Metaphysical exploration... in Language. Yes, from then on, we will look for the being of things... in Language. The ambition of the bet is of such degree that most of the 20th century philosophy will work around that... Socrates rebates with cathartic wisdom all Sophistic relativism by pointing to the stability of language as undeniable proof that something stable lives out there... otherwise we couldn´t even talk.. and he was right...** **That s the power of thinking...** **So lets think with Socrates...**