Begining Philosophy

Beginning of Philosophy

The word philosophy comes from the two Greek words philein, which means “to love” and sophia, which means “knowledge” or “wisdom”.

Thales: One of the first known Greek philosophers, was doing speculative physics when he claimed that everything in the natural world was made of water.
Leucuppus and Democritus: Arrived at the conclusion that all matter was made from tiny particles (atoms) that were similar except for their size and shape; differences in larger bodies were accounted for by means of their different arrangements.
*Early thinkers thought of physics as a part of philosophy, and this view persisted over 2000 years. The full title of Isaac Newton’s Principles, in which Newton set forth his famous theories of mechanics, mathematics, and stronomy, is Mathematical principles of Natural Philosophy.

Philosophy: The definition of philosophy as the love or pursuit of wisdom, but this is too vague and general. What philosophy is it self a...