The great Nietzsche calls out to humanity with these words in his central work Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Zarathustra turned to the people and said: “I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?… All beings so far have created something...
It is already known to us that Greek philosophy emerged in the 7th century BC. The first philosopher, Thales, laid the foundation for the first school of philosophy. The philosophers of Miletus were interested in what lies at the foundation of the world, i.e., the primary substance, the origin of...
With its unique culture, political system, and philosophy, Greece is one of the first settlements of mankind. Ancient Greece is a universe in itself. The history of Ancient Greece spans from the 8th to the 2nd centuries BCE. During this period, Greek culture began to form, a new Greek alphabet...
To gaze at the heavens – this is the answer of Pythagoras (582–496 BCE), to the question of why humans live. According to some sources, Pythagoras traveled to Miletus in his youth, where he met the elderly Thales and Anaximander. Thales inspired in the future philosopher an interest in mathematics and...
The city of Miletus, located on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea, is the birthplace of the first school of philosophy in Ancient Greece and, indeed, the entire Western world. The founders and members of this school are already familiar to us: the three wise men of Miletus—Thales, Anaximander,...