ABSTRACT
Although people have changed greatly down the ages of recorded history, much of our twenty-first-century thinking, at least in the western world, is still dominated by the philosophical assumptions of the Ancient Greeks. Yet, if we could be transported back to the slopes of Mount Olympus, we would soon find out how much people have changed in the past two and a half thousand years. We no longer think like the Ancient Greeks and probably do not even feel as they did. When Socrates said that the unexamined life was not worth living, he could hardly have imagined how far the notion of ‘self-examination’ might be taken. Indeed, the changes that occurred during the twentieth century were phenomenal and the pace of change appears to be quickening.
