Talk:Introduction to Philosophy/Origins of Philosophy

I am taking a new approach on this. The old version of this text was completely incomprehensible and strayed far from what I would consider an introduction. Although this is the first step and there is much to be edited, I would like to continue working in this manner until the end of each part. Afterwards, it would be easier for me to edit. That is, when I have more time to take in each idea and pay more attention to its own attention to the subject. Also, I will be trying to transform these discussion pages into a comprehensive discussion on Philosophy. --Destrogal 21:09, 30 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I love the idea that earth was formed from water by the mind. I think it's a wonderfully literal extension of the idea that one's reality is a product of thier own perception.

I'm sorry but the author of this article just doesn't have a sufficient grasp of English to be writing articles on philosophy. It's too big of a mess to even consider editing it. Someone should start again from scratch. My apologies to the original author.

I was thinking of participating in this project and contributing to it, but I have a question to those who watch this page and this project. This introduction to philosophy is written in part in the first person, and that makes it hard for me to know how to jump in and contribute, because it's someone else's "I". Has there been some agreement about the mode or style of this textbook, in terms of what voice or person it will be written in? It's not even that I'm objecting to an introduction to philosphy being written in the first person, but rather that I can't figure out how to be part of a collective or group that is writing in that mode. In any case, I'd be grateful for any insight you can provide. Jjshapiro (talk) 00:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Etymology edit
Hope you don't mind but I edited the section on the origin of the word "philosophy". I don't know if that was right but I felt that keeping the etymological article short would allow the reader to ease into this vast subject. --Sluffs (talk) 01:25, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Love is selfish, crucial, cruel with good intents of care;freedom, trust and honesty Mtyeku Kuhle (discuss • contribs) 20:58, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Non-Greek Origins of Philosophy
This article should be updated to provide a sourced and balanced view of the Jaeger/Guthrie view of 'Western philosophy starts with Thales' versus the 'The Greeks stood on the shoulders of non-Greek giants' view put forward by scholars such as Kingsley, Christos C Evangeliou and Algis Uzdavinys. As it stands, it is biased in that it does not put forward the views of Classical scholars who acknowledged their debt to other cultures.

The unsigned comment above is valid and the real issue is religion. The Pantheon of deities that Homer describes (excluding local Greek deities) are related to Babylonian deities as well as a whole host of other Eastern deities. Man's first attempt to explain the world he lived in and how he experienced it begins with the old "hey lets worship that big bright object in the sky that gives us warmth" or "that was a great hunt and my wife's really happy about the woolly mammoth steak sandwiches she can make so I will draw a picture of our experiences of the hunt on our cave wall to celebrate" and other such ideas including ancestors, each other, meteorites, eclipses, disease, etc. Also the Greeks themselves framed their experiences accordingly. Plato is not a rational philosopher in the modern agnostic sense and quite often references the pantheon of deities that were worshiped in his time. I don't know the authors mentioned above but any chapter titled "Origins of Philosophy" should start with a brief discussion of religion. Probably this reply is bit late but if no one minds I will try to put something together along those line.

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 00:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Broken link
Hi, It seems that I can't access the website at the bottom of this chapter. Can anyone confirm this to me please? I am currently translating this wikibook into Thai. -Thas Tayapongsak (discuss • contribs) 17:40, 24 September 2021 (UTC)