To tell the truth, all the philosophical traditions, schools and movements are equally enjoyable for me, however, my choice went to Platonic thought.



I admire Ciceronian thought as a great synthesis of Greek and Roman thought, and his works of the Commonwealth/Republic (the political system of checks and balances), The Dream of Scipio (based on the Ptolemaic astronomical system of 'spirit' and the bodies of planets, surrounded by the outer ring of firmament as well as the soul), On the Orator (the art of speech), Laelius or On Friendship, Tusculan Disputations, etc.

I admire Hegelian thought for the Hegelian Dialectic-> "Master/Slave Dialectic", of thesis, antithesis and synthesis as well as the amalgamation of history and philosophy. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed in the collective whole of society for the benefit of the State for historical progression. (Soren Kierkegaard was an individualist and opposed Hegelian thought; his philosophy had a tripartite division: aesthetics, ethics and religious.) Also, Hegel was a proponent of hero-worship as Thomas Carlyle.

I admire Schillerian thought for the aesthetic component of philosophy; the immortality of beauty, arts, poetry; the love and eye for the ideal beauty and proportion would only cease to exist if humanity itself expires. Examples: On the Aesthetic Education of Man and the drama titled Wallenstein.

My favorite choice is Platonic thought out of the available options. Socrates/Plato were the first philosophers to recognize the immortality of the soul in the great works of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo that all detailed the life, trial and death of Socrates. The enthymeme of Plato's ratiocination is that the body is perishable and ultimately decays and dissipates but the soul is immortal and incorporeal. The soul is apotheosized and achieves eternal worth and value in such Socratic Dilaogues. In addition, the works of Symposium, Menexenus and The Republic deal with topics ranging from the abhorrence of sophistry, the definition of the arts, the comparison between painting and poetry, etc.



Please, explain your choices.