Author Archives: Eve Rose Hankins

I read the dialogue Friendship by Plato and it made me think a lot especially since the father of the person in the dialogue was Democrates, the inventor of our atomic theory. The dialogue was about what attracts friendship good, evil, or neutral people. I thought this was very interesting because if taken metaphorically as a stance on atomic theory, good would be attracted strongly to bad, neutral would be attracted with a slight charge to both good and bad, bad would repell bad and good would repell good.

Applying this philosophy to life is hard if not impossible because there is no way to objectively judge myself as either good or bad and there is a lot of gray area in between. I know I have done bad things and made poor decisions at times, but I generally try to be as good of a person as I can be to the people around me.

My friendships tend to focus on good people and neutral people. I am definitely attracted romantically to bad people and neutral people. I would say this probably makes me a good person because I am not attracted to good people as much as the bad, but it’s all relative anyways so it is not worth it to judge others.

I have been reading Plato and the more I read the more I think medicine just is not the right path for me. I know that thinking is what I like to do and it’s possible that I can spark a passion in medicine, but right now my passion lies in my thoughts and how to connect thoughts I have to one another. I was watching videos for potential medical students and I just felt like I wasn’t learning anything important. I always feel like something is important when I read philosophy like it will help me in my life somehow, but I do not get that same feeling from biology. It is possible that I have more of a passion for pathology than for biology, but there is still a foundation of biology and since I am not in love with the foundation, I have no all encompassing love for the subject like I do with philosophy.

I was thinking I may want to get into writing and philosophy, so I can have a way to articulate my ideas in an elegant manner. I love meta physics, the knowledge of what is as such. It feels like I am understanding why life is the way that it is and almost like time stops and I can look around and appreciate things more. Maybe philosophy isn’t this magnificent thing that I think it is to everyone else, but for me I find real joy in it and do not want anyone to take that away from me.

I will talk to my dad hopefully today and see about enrolling in a school. I want to see if I can take a philosophy class just to get my feet wet in the subject I care so much about. I do not think it is just a hobby. I think it is truly what I care about. I may care about other things as well such as I would like to setup this business with my uncle, and would like to get into writing.

In the dialogue I read from Plato it was about this man who was talking to Socrates about his headaches and how the problem needed to be treated holistically with the mind and the body connection. He was giving him a herb and an incantation to cure his headaches.