Philosophy’s enduring questions
However, to answer what is best for a human being required that the ancient thinkers examine what virtue is and whether goodness can be taught, what a human being is and how human beings are related to the natural and supernatural worlds, how to distinguish and to know what is right and wrong, how to distinguish was is real from what is misleading, deciding whether there are universal and objective truths in a rapidly changing and widely diverse world, does God exist and what does God want of human beings. These and other concerns emerged during the first stirrings of philosophical reflection and they continue to concern thoughtful persons in contemporary times. Philosophy began in wonder at the natural world, turned attention to the human condition and loving wisdom, and initiated a rational quest that continues to this day to know thyself by examination of what it means to be a good person.