Philosophy, Part 1: The Presocratics (1) - Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes: From Metaphorical to Material
On Homer, Hesiod, and the three Milesian Philosophers, taking us from a world understood by the mystical to one which would attempt to be understood by the material
The rationalization of thought and demystification of inexplicable worldly phenomena began long before Mason and Dixon contributed to the global imperialist project — even long before Francis Bacon wrote his Novum Organum which would come to serve as the foundation for what we know today as the scientific method. You would have to go back another millennium to Miletus — a city on the Western coast of Anatolia (what today we know as Turkey). It was here that three men began the discipline we know today as philosophy — of the Western kind, that is: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, each slightly the next one’s elder.
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