13 May 2013
Classical World View: Quest for the
First Principle
The Western Philosophies in Classical
or Ancient era had gone after the quest for the ‘First Principles’.
Philosophers had discussed about several elements which were supposed to
originate the existence of earth with. That quest had begun from first
philosopher in western World, Thales of Ionia (636-546 BC) who was one of the
pre-Socratic philosophers, till the time of Aristotle (4th Century
BC). These classical or Greek philosophers are often tagged as natural
philosophers with their supposition of natural things or world to be the
fundamental elements.
The first philosopher to make the quest is Thales of Ionia. He started to talk about natural concept destroying divine and mythological concepts. Argumentative method for philosophy was developed. Thales claimed that everything in this world is made up of water because everything come with moisture. He created the metaphysics. He even believed that the earth floats in water. Seeds of everything have got some sort of moist in it which is the element of water.
