STAGES OF PHILOSOPHY

• It is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates that started with Thales of Miletus
• Philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations in favor of more rational ones

• Philosophers used dialogue to approach to the reality (Socratic method)
• Plurality of topics (Cosmology, Anthropology, Ethics, Politics, etc.)

• Was developed in the Hellenistic civilization following Aristotle and ending with the beginning of Neoplatonism
• Philosophers were worried about ethical issues and knowledge problems

• It is the process of rediscovering the ancient cultutre developed in Greece and Rome in the classical period
• It's also the need to address theological problems and to integrate sacred doctrine with secular learning

• It’s the passage from medieval philosophy to humanism
• Humanism, Politics, astronomy and Maths are clue during this period

-After fifteen centuries of philosophizing about theological questions, they seeked to know the created world.
- It's divided into two groups:

RATIONALISTS (Descartes & Spinoza): all knowledge must begin from certain "innate ideas" in the mind.

EMPIRICISTS (John Locke & Berkeley): held that knowledge must begin with sensory experience.

• Romanticism validated strong emotion as an authentic not of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe
• The most important philosophical schools and tendencies were German idealism, Utilitarianism, Marxism, Existentialism, Positivism, Pragmatism

-The development of a number of new philosophical schools (logical positivism, analytic philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, and poststructuralism)
- Philosophy increasingly became professionalized and a split emerged between philosophers who considered themselves part of either the "analytic" or "continental" traditions