The adventure began more than one hundred years before Socrates’s birth, in the sun-baked commercial town of Miletus on the coast of Asia Minor, or modern-day Turkey. In about 585 BCE, a man named Thales amazed his fellow Milesians by correctly predicting an eclipse of the sun.
Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek: φιλοσοφία, philosophia, ‘love of wisdom’) is the study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras others dispute this story arguing that Pythagoreans merely claimed use of a preexisting term. Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation. Philosophy is not a belief or a wish. Philosophy is an activity: a quest after wisdom.
What is beauty? Why are we so attracted to beauty? Neoplatonism is based upon an axiomatic presupposition that […]
One of the questions that has faced and continues to face some of the philosophers of the world is ‘What is reality?’