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Philosophy

In Europe, West Asia, and East Asia from the 600s BCE to 1450, many philosophical thoughts developed. As time passed, some philosophies remained the same while others changed or completely disappeared. In Europe, Greek influence was evident among all forms of philosophy while in South Asia there were Chinese influences and in West Asia Arab influences.
Philosophy was first developed around 600 BCE in Ionia. The Ionians were deeply interested in the ways of being and reality and how things were born, grew, and died (Copleston 17). These thoughts, referred to as pre-Socratic beliefs, focused on finding out how nature worked and the forces that were involved in it (Stamatellos). The main philosophers of the time in Greece were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Aristotle is known for deducing that all knowledge is valuable and affects mankind and that "the unexamined life is not worth living" (Sahakian and Sahakian 32). Aristotle's teachings later translated into Latin......

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