The Father of Philosophy

What's the origion of philosophy? Even the science that includes the study of the beginning theory as an important subject has to confront with this kind of how-it-start question.
philosophy was born when man 's thinking at the very first time jump from the economic production to meditate what's the hidden rule behind the common earth viewed from sight.
If the mile stone has been recorded, this pioneer of philosophical thinking was Thales(translated as 泰勒士 in chinese, pronounced as /θei liz/ ), a Greek philosopher lived before Socrate.

Thales of Melius,(the later-half indicates the city he lived), as a Greek nobleman, mastered in various academic areas, such as: mathematic, astronomy, and especially, politics. Besides being as talented as a Renaisance man, he's also a sailor and merchant, gaining foreign language and natural observation by taking voyages. he dedicated to philosophy at his elderly age when the widsom's grown mature. Notable for attribution in all his expertises, he's considrered the head among the seven sages of Greece while alive, and by Aristotle regarded as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. To relate to the crucial influences of Greek philosophy to the Western culture, Thales is never flattered to be regarded as the father of Western philosophy.

It is a wonder to wonder how the big issue as the Genesis (the creation of the world ) comes to man's mind, the respectable philosophy researchers do provide us their guess. The idea of Genesis was based on the mythology formed when man tried to explain the powerful natural phenomenon ( thundering, earthquake...) that to them was so frightening and threatening. Then the explaination transfered to a common belief or religion, developing till its maturity and invoking some bright-minded people to search another way out. Thus the philosophy established its primitive shape, dealed with the man's ration and logic, made from the secular relisgion to the individual thought of philosophy.

Back to Thales, who loved to meditate, did not have any writing survived in present. However, his thoughts could be found in the allusion or recorddone by other ancient philosophers, who yet counted as his successors. According to Aristotle, the three famous sentences which composed an coherent philosophical theory of Thales are:

The world started from water.
The earth floats on the water.
Divinity exsists in everything.

Water acts an essencial role in both Thales' philosophy and Greek tradition since Greece is a country of rocky land surrouded by sea, and the geographic fact gives the clue of the first and second sentences. Moreover, to emphasize on the key word of the last sentence: Divinity, the result of philosophical deduction seems to suggest the water Thales talked about gets beyond the real water in daqily life. when "water" is full of divinity(before it transforms to concrete things) , it become supernatural and living. Through the divine power it grows to everything. Thales' theory is closed to the ordinary prmitive belief that everything on the earth owns lives and chains to each other like a round cycle, effecting each to each, gaining and ceasing.

I think it is a remarkable step when human being moved his sight from the narrow surrounding to pay attention to the extensive enviroment of universe. Also the ancestor philosopher, in my opinion, paralleling with the modern heroes as fire fighters or policeman, can be called the great people who contribuited so much to saving our barren mind of spiritual life.

Eventually, here we conclude the exshausting fight in our brain, thanks you for your time and patience.

Why Philosophy???

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Hello,dear classmates and passers-by,

thanks for stepping into this blog,

You're sincerely welcome,

and I hope my plain tongue won't bore you to death.

Writng in a blog in English is not really so fresh for me,

I do it randomly when keeping journal,

but when it comes to become homework to grade,

I do spend time on worrying what to talk about.

Usually the blogrunners focus on the particular areas they're interested or master in;

however; as a art and literature lover of conspicious tendency ,

I think I'd better stop repeating the do again and again theme.

Moving to Taichung and starting a new life in a new college is a fantastic thing,

besides meeting new people, I also find myself spending more time with myself (being alone I mean),

then by myself my brain just dosen't rest and runs on things I ommit before stop talking.

So on and on, sometimes the world and my life seems dim and glommy,

and before becoming a pious follower of religions local and foreign I look for salvation in the books.

I find Philosophy interesting and helpful to alter your life from mere chit-chat and making a living.

reading along with the the philosophers' thinking course enable people to
learn their way of questioning common things, which seems to be fixed in a popular value, but may actually be wrong and unreasonable,thus Philosophy can independent your judgement standard.

Not bound by the secular rules and not blind to the real surrounding, the world appaers boarder than it was before philosophy.

I intend to share some of my reflection on reading the various philosophy related subjects or life story of philosophers with you in the following weeks.

One thing I would like it to be aware is that I am of no kind of philosophy experts, students of or philosophy department, or even old hands of reading philosophy;

therefore; these articles posted here are only my humble opinion echoing the concentration and passion seen in the philosopher's pieces, and also the invitation for you to join the journey ahead to the spirit of philosophy.