Tag: Heraclitus
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The Origins of Western Thought: An Introduction to Presocratic Greek Philosophy
Long before Socrates questioned Athenians in the Agora, a group of early Greek thinkers, known as the Presocratics, laid the foundation for Western philosophy. These early philosophers emerged from various regions of the Greek world in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE and were united by their desire to understand the universe through reason and…