?What were the two basic questions that guided the inquiry of the first philosophers?
a. To be, or not to be?
b. I think, therefore I am?
c. What is the common stuff from which everything is composed?
d. The starry heavens above the moral law within?
e. None of the above
The first known philosophers of ancient Greece were from a city-state called Miletus. Located on the west coast of what is now the peninsula of Turkey (then called Anatolia), Miletus was a thriving seaport, and part of a region of cities called Ionia. As a hub of sea trade, residents of Miletus were in contact with surrounding cultures and as such were influenced by many of their views, particularly theories of astronomy that came from civilizations to the east of Greece. The three first philosophers from Miletus were Thales, Anaximander and Anaximines, all of whom attempted to answer the question “What is the common stuff from which everything is composed?”
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