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Intro To Philosophy

Essay 1

Philosophy deals with the way which human beings analyze the world. In the beginning of the Greek Enlightenment, ancient philosophers contributed many works that set the foundations that enabled the development of modern philosophy.
It all began when philosophers started to survey the natural world, and hence the physical universe, what caused it to looked the way it did. For example Thales in 6th B.C. argued that everything was made up of water. In addition Pythagoras argued that everything in the universe had a numerical facet that uniquely described them. He also believed that by using math you could find the root to everything that existed in the cosmos (Enlightenment ppt. Slide 3).
Another acclaimed philosopher that had a compelling or significant role in the rise of modern philosophy was Socrates. Socrates further expanded philosophy by examining the ideals of human virtues and happiness. He's probably best known for his dialect that emphasized that the truth......


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