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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Plato

Plato
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
What Is Philosophy?

Most philosophers believe that philosophy begins in wonder, and thus has
its roots somewhere in human nature itself.

Men are probably the only creatures who can wonder. They can wonder at
the "mystery of man's existence" and at the fact that the world exists or,
finding no such "mysteries," can wonder about the nature of the world (whether
it is material or spiritual, moving or still) and the nature of man's
knowledge of it.

Out of this wonder, two men in ancient Greece created philosophy as we
know it today - as the systematic ...

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