The Pre-Secratic Philosophers

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D'Adlauv Pass: The Pre-Secratic philosophers changed the way Western man looks at the universe and their place in it. Mycenae was a palatial civilization from about 1750 to 1050 BCE, or what's known as the Late Bronze Age. Why Greece? Why was that such a fertile ground for the beginnings of science, the beginnings of philosophy? How did they make so many advances over the math and architecture of the Egyptians? Every single one of us living now lives in the shadow of their ideas.

In this episode we begin a series on the beginnings of "Western" thought and science. We start with the catastrophy of the Mycenean Collapse, the Greek Dark Ages, and the Archaic Age, then continue with a discussion of Miletus and its most revered citizen, Thales. Thales has left his mark on the planet with his work. As a brilliant sage whose ideas were the beginnings of science, he helped set a trajectory for all future generations of philosophers and scientists.

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