In primitive society consciousness of the person as a whole has not been generated yet, namely the person hasn't realized that he differs from animals and plants, and between people there was no such feeling of identity.
The question on an origin and roots of the world distinguishes the person from other kinds
The question to this question is, as a matter of fact, reflections on a place of the person in the world, reflections on mutual relations of the person with changeable Search of the world testify to mistrust and dissatisfaction of people of that time with caprices and phenomena.
Because phenomena, things are limited and can change. So why did this world become so? This is a world based on the problem. For example, the tree has a similar structure, but differs in height and shape by the world, with numerous and complex objects. People want to find certainty, i.e. regularity, the root of things through these phenomena.
Such laws and roots can provide reliability and confidence in the existence of man, and in fact they give man confidence in himself, that is, by thinking and using concepts to comprehend this world. Thus, one could name the concept of a tree for different trees, and according to Plato's theory, a tree in reality is a tree, because there is a concept of a tree.
Wrongly interpreted platonic love. With this concept, a person can understand and understand how the world changes, no matter how the phenomena change. Having established the source in the concept that man is in unity with the source, he discovers the uniqueness of man and goes beyond the world of phenomena. The concept comprehends the world, not the same as the world of common sense, a phenomenon. In an empirical common sense, for example, death and life are very clear, life is life, death cannot be revived, and life and death cannot be explained in dialectical terms. But at this level the concepts of life and death are completely different.
For example, it is highly controversial that abortion is not considered fetal homicide, and the question of how to define birth is difficult. Can a fetus that was not born in the womb be considered born? The dead have the same problem as the dead, a process in which cells in the body die at every moment, so the living and the dead are not absolute opposites within the concept.
It is also possible to consider that philosophy is an activity on creation of notions, comprehension of the world in notions.