This paper discusses philosophy's unanswered questions. Western culture has always grappled with the meaning of life; whether there is or isn't a God, is he male or female, does science take precedence over this God, etc. Philosophers, in answering these questions, have made assumptions about the nature of reality. "These assumptions tend to be expressed in oppositional language, such as mind and body, divinity and nature, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, science and religion." In later philosophy, thinkers developed a larger capacity for thought and started to grapple with the concept of reason. This occurred at the time of Socrates and the formation of Platonic philosophy, and again in the 1470s and 80s during the Renaissance, when scholars were prone to finding magic and mysticism in the arts and the doctrines of religion.
