Highlights.

These are a few highlights and ideas/stashes from Chapter 4, Learning From the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus from the Book The Written World by MARTIN PUCHNER. 

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Cebes: " Let us try to persuade him not to fear death as if it were a hobgoblin "

" Ahh," Socrates " You must sing charms to him every day until you charm away his fear "

" Yu ,Shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you don't know it; this is knowledge."

His most intense teaching moment occurred just before his death, in 399 B.C.E., in prison, 

when he told his students that philosophy was nothing other than a preparation for dying.

( Seeing distress among his students )

Socrates: " You have a childish fear that when the soul goes out from the body the wind will really blow it away and scatter it, especially if a man happens to die in a high wind and not calm weather "

Cebes: " ...

In Confucius's view, the chaos of the present had infected even the meaning of words -

When rites and music do not flourish, punishments will not fit the crimes;

When punishments do not fit the crime, the common people will not know where to put their hands and...