Philosophy is the love of wisdom because it came from two Greek words philos (love) and Sophia (wisdom), It is this centrality of love to philosophy that we call people who engages in philosophy as philosophers (lovers of wisdom)., Greece is the birthplace of philosophy in the West, To be more precise it is the ancient Greek city of Miletus in the Western coast of what is now Turkey that gave birth to philosophy. , It is in Turkey that the first philosopher in the West, Thales, lived., Thales is the Father of Philosophy in the Western civilization., Thales lived between 624 and 546 BCE a contemporary of the Lydian king Croesus and the statesman Solon (Stumpf and Fieser,2008)., What made Thales a philosopher is his desire to know the ultimate stuff that makes up the different things we perceived., You see when we look at the world we encounter different things: people, trees, clouds, mountains, rivers, etc., Now Thales believed that despite the different things we encounter there is one underlying stuff or substance in which everything is composed., Thales believes that there is One in the Many. Thales was the first individual who tried to reduce the multiplicity in to a unity (Jones,1969)., Thales explanation of natural phenomena is devoid of gods and goddesses of the old religion of Greece., It is completely rational. It represents a departure from the mythological religion of Greece., Thales approach highlights the difference between religion and philosophy. Religion rests on faith while philosophy rests on reason..

ORIGIN OF PHILOSOPHY

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