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Random PM Musing:

What's a philosophical question we wrestle with today, that our ancestors never did?

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Heraclitus: “you never step in the same river twice”

The alternative is every question is different and every ancestor; every human fundamentally have wrestled with questions that were unique only to them and are not transmutable over different humans

The fact that we still read the Stoics, and all religious/spiritual texts,  and find their contemplations mostly relevant, would suggest this isn't the case. No?

Though stoicism came during the Roman times where as Heraclitus was part of the pre Socratic, I’d argue your point stands

Any thought that’s stood the test of time, whether that’s Lao Tze, Plato, Confucius, Aristotle, Siddartha Guatama, Mengzi, Vedic philosophers, Tao Te Ching - is worth anyone’s time imo

That isn’t to discount modern writers, or anyone in between - ideas are ideas - just more weapons in your arsenal imo, you never know when you’ll need them in your war

That’s a good question. Maybe it’s because the world itself keeps changing and the answers are in fact different even if we continue to ask the same questions 

The navigation system may not evolve that much but it’s surroundings continuously yielding a new wonderful answer every time

Certainly still worth people’s time.

It does make me wonder though WHY we continue (re)answering the same questions over and over. 

As though we’re hardwired to search for that which cannot be known.