Today is the traditional birthday of philosophy, May 28, 585 BCE. It’s a great story, so I’ll tell a version of how philosophy was born.
So, Thales’s explanation of his prediction came to represent the separation of philosophy, which relies on evidence and arguments, from the Greek religious tradition.
Since the core of philosophy is what we can work out with our own reasoning ability, I’m going to encourage everyone to celebrate the birthday of philosophy by doing some serious thinking. 😉
