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Philosophical Foundations (a. Ancient Roots) The Age of Intellectual Maturity In The Republic (Book VII, 539b-540a), Plato discusses the age and maturity necessary for one to attain the status of a philosopher. Beyond a contrarian, superficial, or mimetic spirit, a thinker truly becomes a philosopher only when he surpasses the stage of immaturity (to use
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Prolegomena for an uncomfortable exercise In Matthew 15:14, Jesus, the carpenter from a dusty little village in northern ancient Israel, just had a confrontation with the Pharisees and scribes who had come all the way from Jerusalem. When his disciples expressed some concerns that their teacher had offended these highly respected intellectual elites, Jesus responded:
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