Thales of Miletus
Ancient Greece
The Milesian School: Ancient Greece’s Pioneers of Philosophy
The Milesian School, a branch of pre-Socratic philosophy based in the Asia Minor town of Miletus in the sixth century BC, produced three thinkers who together formed the basis of the later Western scientific method.
It is generally considered to...
Greece
Filotimo, the Hard to Translate Greek Word
Filotimo or philotimo is a Greek noun comprising of the words philo (verb translated as "to like" or noun translating as "friend") and timo (verb translating as "to honor"). It is hard to explain, impossible to translate in one...