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For the Love of Wisdom: The Birth of Philosophy

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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The Three Overarching Points of in Pedicles

The early philosophic movement, starting in the Greek cities of Ionia in the 6th century and never really stopping ever since. It involved everything from people concerned essentially with what we would call questions of physics to those expounding secret traditions. We have no reason to think that an empedicles saw himself as doing the same sort of thing as a Thales or an Exegris - although he may have done so. By the time of Plato, this whole range of authors will be surveyed by one in the same author,. Plato, and later by Aristotle as a kind of movement, which they call philosophy. 3. Something special seems to have happened in southern Italy. In this place and

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