The Beginning Of Western Philosophy : Interpret... -

Western philosophy didn’t start with a book or a decree, but with a shift in perspective. Around the 6th century BCE, in the Greek city-state of Miletus, a group of thinkers began to swap myth for logic. This transition—often called the move from —marks the official beginning of the Western intellectual tradition. 1. The Pre-Socratics: Searching for the Arche

The Birth of Reason: Interpreting the Dawn of Western Philosophy The beginning of western philosophy : interpret...

Before Socrates focused on human ethics, the earliest philosophers (the Pre-Socratics) were obsessed with the natural world. They sought the —the fundamental "stuff" or first principle of the universe. Western philosophy didn’t start with a book or