It was not the Greece, where philosophers professed less, and initiated more. No doubt Greece produced many practical philosophers whom contribution to this field is immense, few became the founding father of various sub philosophical fields, while rest left unfinished imprint on the pages of philosophical evolution. This short article would just touch the contribution of few famous philosophers and their major accomplishments and the hurdles they faced. While, the other philosophers should not be underestimated as they played important role and contribution in shaping this discipline. It was really a hard task to defend the knowledge which didn't testify through scientific technique, the testified technique for varsity of knowledge at that time, as it lack experiment and practical however hypothesis were mainly supported by wisdom of philosopher.
In this regard the first known philosopher was Parmenides, who started studying over the mystery of knowledge; but the Pre-Socratic, fixed themselves upon the firm earth, and sought to ferret out its secrets by insightful observation and experience, by rejecting the dialectics of creation. These mysteries were out of discussion and were not arguable as they were accepted as myths and nature rule, shutting all door of reason, research and findings. However, his efforts enlightened the facts behind these mysteries and opened mind of people for reason and question.
Democritus would not be perilous company for the dissipated scholastic, who have made the dispute about the reality of the outer world take the place of medieval discourses on the number of angles that could sit on the point of a pin?
Thales, who faced the challenges that philosophers were numskulls by "cornering the market" and making a fortune in a year. Anaxagoras, who was Greece's Darwin and turned Pericles from a wire-pulling politician into a thinker and statesman, picture old Socrates, unafraid of the sun or the stars, gaily corrupting young men and overturning governments; what would he have done to these bespectacled seedless philosophers who now litter the court of the once great Green?
To Plato, as to these virile predecessors, epistemology was but the vestibule of philosophy, akin to the preliminaries of love; it was pleasant enough for a while, but it was far from the innovative and creative consummation that attracted wisdom's lover on. Here and there in the shorter dialogues, the Master dallied amorously with the problem of perception, thought and knowledge; but in his more spacious moments he propagated his vision over immense fields, build himself ideal states and brooded over the nature and fate of the man.
And finally in Aristotle philosophy was honored in all her boundless scope and greatness; all her palaces were explored and exquisitely put in order that no one did so far; here every problem found a place and every science brought its toll to wisdom.
These men knew that the function of philosophy was not to bury herself in the obscure retreats of epistemology, but to come forth valorously into every realm of inquiry and gather all knowledge for the coordination and illumination of human character and human life. So we can say that philosophy has played a significant role in building human thought, thinking and knowledge. All these philosophers knew that the purpose of Philosophy was to benefit and enlighten man rather than holding discussions.
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