Thales - The First Philosopher

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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.

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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