RE: JESUS <3
July 16, 2015 at 7:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 7:48 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(July 16, 2015 at 7:40 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 11:12 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Thanks for everyone's responses!
Do you guys believe that Mohammad, Cleopatra, Aristotle were real people?
Aristotle? Absolutely. He was a prolific writer who greatly influenced other philosophers. We only have one real biography and that's written several hundred years later Diogenes Laertius in his work Lives of Eminent Philosophers 225-250 AD. But Laetius references the contemparary works he relied on.
Cleopatra? Which one? There are a bunch, all well sourced in Egypt. The one I think you mean who gets tangled up with Caesar and Anthony is well sourced in Rome and Egypt. No doubt she existed.
Mohammad? He's even harder to source than Jesus. Probably was a real person, but there's not much to go on.
Thanks!
This Cleopatra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra (you were correct)
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
