Los inicios de la filosofía en Grecia

How can we talk today about the beginnings of philosophy? How to avoid the traditional opposition between myth and logos and, instead, explore the multiple styles of thought that emerged between the two extremes? In this illuminating essay, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs, through lucid and detailed exploration, the intellectual world of the Presocratics to offer a nuanced understanding of the roots of what would later be known as "the Greek miracle." From Miletus to Elea, from Ephesus to Agrigento, Sassi begins with the canonical questions -the when and how of the origin of thought, his reflections on the cosmic order, its concrete nature and its distinctive forms- to trace the history of archaic knowledge and also analyze the environment of intellectual competition, geographical decentralization and the adoption of a more direct prose -similar to that used to draft the laws of the polis-; a prose that allowed the Ionian philosophers and scientists to exercise without circumlocution in critical reason, and thus definitively revolutionize Greek knowledge and, ultimately, found Western philosophy.