What's interesting about human thinking is that the more familiar concepts in the common sense, the harder it is to explain. Many of the questions asked by young children cause headaches in adults because they are the common sense of adults, and children who are just learning to know the world know why.
For example, what is a person, what is an animal, the difference between a person and an animal, and so on. Philosophy is one such word that we usually call deep, philosophical, but we also use to say that a person has some stereotypes.
Recently reading ancient Greek philosophy, we think more about the word philosophy. What do we read about philosophical history? Such as a few basic philosophies that people need to know in life, such successful research into the mind of chicken broth, why is it attracting people? In ancient China there was philosophy, but the word philosophy was exotic.
Ancient Chinese literary philosophy is not divided, called Zi, sutra, metaphysics, science, psychology, etc., with the content of statements such as the assertion of reason as the basis of all that exists Zhu Xi, with the assertion that the heart is the original Lu Juan, Wang Yang Ming, the first of which is a theoretical set, the latter is a representative of psychology. The term philosophy in Chinese, translated by Japanese scientists into Greek by Philosophia, came to China in the 1880s.
Ancient Greek originally meant striving for wisdom. At the same time, it is another activity, mental activity, which makes a person wise, asking questions of wisdom. Socrates often argues with people and sets out his claims in discussions. Such activities are philosophical in nature. As a discipline, ancient Greek philosophy meant that people lived wisely, asking questions about wisdom. So, what is the question of wisdom?
The ancient Greeks believed that this was a question of the origin of the world. That is, where the foundation of the world, where the foundation of man. Whether Taylor is attributed to water, or to the Heraclitus fire, or to Pythagoras, or to Plato's idea, he was looking for a deterministic basis for the world. So why did the ancient Greeks think about such questions as the foundation of peace?
The life of ancient peoples is the life of the primitive mythological world. This means that at that time people did not differ from animals and plants. All these are different species created by God.