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To clarify, Wikipedia[1] describes it better: The term ["Presocratics"] was coined to highlight a fundamental change in philosophical inquiries betwee
by endorphine 4y ago
To clarify, Wikipedia[1] describes it better:
The term ["Presocratics"] was coined to highlight a fundamental change in
philosophical inquiries between the philosophers who lived
before Socrates, who were interested in the structure of
nature and cosmos (i.e., the universe, with the
implication that the universe had order to it), and
Socrates and his successors, who were mostly interested in
ethics and politics. The term comes with drawbacks, as
several of the pre-Socratics were highly interested in
ethics and how to live the best life.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Socratic_philosophy#Terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Socratic_philosophy#Termin...