HBH 36: The Greek Dark Ages, The Archaic Age, and Thales the Wise
The History of Being Human
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Thales - The First Philosopher
Thales was born 150 years before Socrates and 200 years before Plato. He came from the city of Myelitus, on the Aegean Sea at the western coast of what is now Turkey. No less an authority than Aristotle himself considered Thales the first philosopher. But until the time of Thales, nobody to our knowledge asked the kind of questions that Thales did.
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