Character and Development of Greek Philosophy

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This paper is about Greek philosophy and the thoughts of the philosophers particularly during the flowering of Greek civilization. The paper tells the importance of the Greek philosophers between 600BC and 200 BC, and how they moved from myth to science to form the basis of all philosophical speculation in the Western World. The author discusses how the first philosophers looked for reality and truth, away from the traditions of mythology and religion.

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"Greek philosophy, particularly during the flowering of Greek civilization between 600 BC and 200 BC, comes to form the basis of all philosophical speculation in the Western World. The word philosophy comes from two Greek words "philo" and "sophia", which together mean ?love of wisdom.?. Experts are not really sure why the Greeks were the first to come up with the concept. To them it is a way of looking for reality and truth, away from the traditions of mythology and religion. "Aristotle suggested that philosophy arose out of "wonder" or "puzzlement?" (Browning 17). Due to the Greek alphabet and its simplicity, literacy was widespread. Trade was the way of life that involved dealing with all sorts of novel peoples, cultures, practices, and ideas. The Greeks lacked professional priests and palace bureaucracies whose interests and teachings could have hindered their own speculative thought (Zeller 42)."

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