what is the beggining of philosophy?

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from cells to molecules from molecules to atoms from atoms to fermions bosons quarks fluctuating in quantum states of potential character arrangements, algorithms of a metaphysical language...what else ? Plato understood this quite well...

How did Plato know about cells to molecules from molecules to atoms from atoms to fermions bosons quarks fluctuating in quantum states of potential character arrangements, algorithms of a metaphysical language.

I guess Plato knew about how things keep breaking down to into smaller forms?

all matter is growing in mass and giving up energy all the time, and all matter can be considered radio active, most with a great half life span.

Plato was talking out of his ass having nothing better to go on than a hunch...

The beginning of Philosophy is when a Religion is first Organizing.

Origins





Bust of the philosopher Socrates. Roman copy of Greek original (c.380-360 BC)
[edit] Etymology

The term philosophy is taken from the Greek word "φιλεω" (phileo) meaning "to love" or "to befriend" and "σοφια" (sophia) meaning "wisdom." Thus, "philosophy" means "the love of wisdom". Socrates, a Greek philosopher, used the term philosophy as an equivalent to the search for wisdom. Also, the term wisdom is used as a general term for describing the intellectual probing of any idea.

[edit] Introduction to Philosophy

The study of any discipline, such as Philosophy, should begin with its definition. Webster's dictionary defines philosophy as:

"the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics"

The definition highlights the nature of philosophical inquiry. Philosophers ask questions. These questions try to understand the metaphysical and physical world of man. Philosophy is considered to have developed as a form of rational inquiry in the cities of Ancient Greece.

[edit] Pre-Socratics

The history of philosophy in the west begins with the Greeks, and particularly with a group of philosophers commonly called the pre-Socratics. This is not to deny the occurrence of other pre-philosophical rumblings in Egyptian and Babylonian cultures. Certainly great thinkers and writers existed in each of these cultures, and we have evidence that some of the earliest Greek philosophers may have had contact with at least some of the products of Egyptian and Babylonian thought. However, the early Greek thinkers added at least one element which differentiates their thoughts from all those who came before them. For the first time in history, we discover in their writings something more than dogmatic assertions about the ordering of the world -- we find reasoned arguments for various beliefs about the world.

History of philosophy

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The history of philosophy is the study of philosophical ideas and concepts through time. Issues specifically related to history of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in its historical context? To what degree can philosophical texts from prior historical eras even be understood today?

All cultures — be they prehistoric, medieval, or modern; Eastern, Western, religious or secular — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Such theories have grown from different premises and approaches, examples of which include (but are not limited to) rationalism (theories arrived at through logic), empiricism (theories arrived at through observation), and even through leaps of faith, hope and inheritance (such as the supernaturalist philosophies and religions).

Philosophy


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Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.[1][2] Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.[3] The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which literally means "love of wisdom".[4][5][6]