Historical Context and Thales of Miletus – Lecture 2 (History of Philosophy)

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What two questions were the earliest Greek philosophers trying to answer?

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Denis A
102d ago
The section on why the Greeks were the first philosophers seems arbitrary. Each point can easily be argued to do the opposite (stifle philosophical inquiry) if it's not presupposed that, for example' the idea of a polis, promotes philosophical inquiry.
Denis A
101d ago
2:12:15 - This is what it feels like when the English hear that an American is on a tour of their history. They make jokes of the brief American History and how the English can have 1,000 years if history in a single tower.