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How did philosophy come about?

16 August, 2023

Philosophy definitely arose, but where and when is not clear. There are likely answers. And this is good. But it's bad that these are the most general hypotheses. About them — in this podcast.

Guest — Evgeny Loginov, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, MCCS employee, Editor-in-chief of the Date Compote magazine 
Moderator — Anton Kuznetsov, Ph.D., research associate at the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University

Timecode:

00:00 - Introduction
02:51 - Greece, India — yes, China — probably not
05:15 - Why does philosophy not arise before the 6th century BC?
07:27 - The role of political organization in the emergence of philosophy and public spaces for discussion
11:05 - The weakness of the priesthood and the monopoly on knowledge
13:14 - Good geographical location of city-states
14:50 - Poor condition of the sources and a different sense of history in the past
16:13 - The emergence of phonetic writing and the democratization of knowledge
18:55 - Scribes in the ancient world: how important it is to learn to write and not to drink
22:39 - From myth to logos, Nestle formula
25:02 - What are myths?
27:00 - Dialogue between master and slave. The first philosophical question
29:34 - The emergence of philosophy and the solar eclipse. Lack of a myth system
31:58 - Nothing came from Thales, but one line from Anaximander. Again the problem of sources
33:51 - The origin of the word “philosophy”
35:05 - These are just hypotheses
37:30 - The earliest use of the word “philosophy". Heraclitus of Ephesus
41:30 - Summary from Mary

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