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Episode 25.

The Origins of Philosophy.

When did people first start engaging in philosophical inquiry?

According to the historical evidence, the first stirrings of philosophy happened 2,600 years ago in ancient Greece

with a group of thinkers known as the Presocratics.

Now, you might ask, what about before that?

Well, there certainly were other cultures, especially in Mesopotamia, that had produced

wisdom literature, containing profound reflections on the human experience.

But most scholars agree that a new kind of thinking emerged with the Presbycratics,

characterized by rational, secular, and often mathematical reasoning, and the relentless scrutiny of our most basic assumptions about the world.

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