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HOMERIC WORLDVIEW CHALLENGED BY THE PRE-SOCRATICS. We earlier wrote on how the world was viewed by Homer and Hesiod, and we tagged it " Before Philosophy ". There, we made it known that everything in the world according to Homer and Hesiod were considered to be caused by the God(s). Our focus here shall be on the Pre-socratics and how they challenged the HOMERIC WORLDVIEW. PRE-SOCRATICS . The early Greek Philosophers are often refers to as the Pre-socratics because they lived before the life of the great and renowned Philosopher, Socrates (470-399BCE). The Pre-socratics Philosophers include; Thales , Anaximander , Anaximanes , Heraclitus , Parmenides , etc. This set of rational individuals set the pace for Science and Discovery by challenging the HOMERIC doctrine of viewing the world. They challenged the HOMERIC WORLDVIEW in significant ways. For instance, in the case of Homer and Hesiod , nature were explained in terms of the gods having hands on nature and man'...

MISTAKEN BELIEFS ABOUT PHILOSOPHY (MISCONCEPTIONS) "Oh gosh! How can I dine in the table of the occult? I mean what do you think I would tell my mom, that I'm studying what! Philosophy? No, no, no.... I mean my parents wouldn't have let me rest. Philosophy is worst than hell" said Jane a 16years old girl during a conversation with her friends.   I would have taken it as a mere adolescent talk but getting in touch with Jane's parents I realized that Jane was serious in her remarks. Maybe Mom and Dad had given Jane a pre-orientation about Philosophy but on a negative angle.   People always have a negative way of defining things hence creating a negative impression about such things. The case is not different about Jane and her parents. Not only Jane have this Mistaken Beliefs about Philosophy other people does have the same. Perhaps, you also have. Philosophy isn't how Jane and her parents see it. What they think about Philosophy is a Mistaken Beliefs, in o...

To understand Philosophy, you need to know the past thinkers who have excel in the course of Philosophizing. The list below contains 102 WORLD THINKERS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO THE POST-MODERN ERA. ANCIENT 1. Thales of Mellitus. 2. Anaximander. 3. Anaximanes. 4. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. 5. Confucius. 6. Heraclitus. 7. Parmenides. 8. Lao-tzu 9. Zeno of Elea. 10. Socrates. 11. Democritus. 12. Plato. 13. Aristotle. 14. Epicurus. 15. Marcus Aurelius. 16. Sextus Empiricus. 17. Tertullian. 18. Origen. 19. Plotinus. 20. St. Augustine. THE MIDDLE AGES 21. Avicenna. 22. St. Anselm of Canterbury. 23. Peter Abelard. 24. Averroes. 25. Moses Maimonides. 26. St. Thomas Aquinas. 27. John Duns Scotus. 28. William of Ockham. THE EARLY MODERN ERA. 29. Niccolo Machiavelli. 30. Michel de Montaigne. 31. Sir Francis Bacon. 32. Thomas Hobbes. 33. Renè Descartes. 34. Blaise Pascal. 35. Baruch Spinoza. 36. John Locke. 37. Gottfried Leibniz. 38. George Be...

BEFORE PHILOSOPHY. Our first question should be "Prior to Philosophy, how were the Ancient Greek see the world?" This serves as an outstanding question before launching into the Study of Ancient Greek Philosophy. It may interest us to know that Philosophy in Western Civilization began when Philosophers attempted to answer some problematic questions about the world in an organized or systematic manner. Questions like "What is the world made up of?" "Where did the world come from?" " Is there GOD or gods?" "If there is GOD or gods, what are they, or he or she like?" These all began at Greece at about 600BCE. The early Greek Philosophers set an agenda that motivated later Philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Etc. Prior to Thales , Anaximander , Anaximanes , Heraclitus , Parmenides , Anaxagoras , Pythagoras , Democritus , The Sophists and even the famous Socrates . Etc. There were popular poets in Greece, who used the...

WHY SHOULD I STUDY PHILOSOPHY? The question of why should I study philosophy? Comes as a direct answer to the beginners in the line of philosophy. The answer is to unmasked the decietful face of philosophy and to bring the kids philosophers into the reality of the prestigious course, Philosophy. Most writers in the field of Philosophy failed to revealed the benefits or the need of Philosophy in the life of an individual. This therefore has created an admosphere for Philosophy to be seen as a “self-thought” discipline. Hence, “each person have to think out the problems and their solutions for himself,” but would this work for the person with low IQ? How would I know that I am not on the wrong field of study? In a country like Nigeria where certificate is the order of the day, what will I do with a certificate in Philosophy? Let me relief you for some strange and mixed feelings by introducing you to the “unknown known fact” about Philosophy. This Article will explain to us ...