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Origins of Western Philosophy Explained by Abella Sheryl Anne is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document provides an overview of the beginnings of Western philosophy, focusing on the pre-Socratic philosophers in ancient Greece. It discusses the first philosophers, the Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes), their ideas about the fundamental substance of reality, and other pre-Socratics like Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Zeno of Elea. It also briefly contrasts the traditions of doing philosophy in Western and Eastern thought.
- Author
- Abella Sheryl Anne
- Language
- EN