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Philosophize This!

Episode #001 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Ionian

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.817.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2013

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today we discussed the "Out of Africa" theory, the adversity of early humans, the term "Pre-Socratic", the first philosopher Thales, the meanest philosopher Heraclitus and Democritus, the godfather of the theory of atomism.  Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis  Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West, and this is the

0:02.5

philosophize this podcast. The first episode of this

0:05.3

show was released on June 6th of 2013, and it was the first

0:09.4

creative thing I ever uttered into a microphone in my

0:11.4

entire life. Now, needless to say, since I started, I've learned a

0:15.3

lot of lessons when it comes to creating a show that brings

0:17.2

as much value to people's time as possible. Bottom line is

0:19.8

this, if you listen to the first episode and you like it, you're

0:23.0

golden. You have over 100 episodes to listen to. I hope you

0:26.0

love all of them. But if you listen to the first episode and

0:28.5

think it's slow or cringey or, you know, it's so talking like

0:34.0

this, it sounds like somebody's roomba came to life and did a

0:36.4

podcast, try skipping forward to around episode 90 and see if you

0:39.4

enjoy it more. You can always go back as far as you can bear

0:42.2

after that. That said, I hope to see you all at present day

0:45.4

soon. And thank you for wanting to know more today than

0:48.0

you did yesterday. Hello, everyone. It's me, Stephen West, and

0:53.2

boy, do we have a lot of great philosophy stuff to talk about

0:55.7

today? You know, I just learned something everybody. It turns

1:01.4

out that if you're listening to this podcast right now, if you

1:05.5

were to trace back your family's heritage, as far as you could

1:08.7

go, if you were to follow the branches of your family tree, all

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