Plato And Aristotle's Birth Of Philosophy

It is in our human nature to sometimes question ourselves and the people around us, to question the morals, standards, values, traditions, and laws that were set by our parents who were brought up into these standards by their parents and so on. These questions are what help flourish the Earth that we inhabit, whether by increasing our understanding of it, or by trying to find ways to create a reason for our existence within it. A basic how, what, or why were the questions that initiated the birth of philosophy. The first noted philosophical figure was Thales of Miletus, and with him, the continuous chain of philosophical thinkers who have highly influenced the cultures of their time and our modern-day way of thinking is born. Some of the important philosophers that follow him are Anaximander, Pythagoras, and Heraclitus, who will then influence the minds of the greater philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The idea of philosophy contradicts the many ideas of the classical Greek cultures, which have based their politics, art, and daily life on the mythology of the Odyssey and Iliad. All the ideas that are inherent from

Both Plato and Aristotle are the most recognisable philosophers of the Classical Greek era as they were the first to have surviving and complete written works. Although Aristotle’s philosophies diverges largely from those of Plato’s, it is still important to account that this way of thinking would have never emerged if not for Plato, and before him Socrates, etc.… This can only be recognised as a result of that very first question that the first noted philosopher, Thales, inquired. As Philosophers begin to emerge, and new ideas contradicting the previous ones begin to develop, the never-ending chain of philosophy accounted by followers of philosophy and their predecessors will continue to flourish our very thought on life and its