Who was the first philosopher?
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The earliest person who is cited by ancient sources as a philosopher is Thales, who lived in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor around the late 7th or early 6th century BCE. He is credited with attempts to expand the Greeks' knowledge in several fields: mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and the investigation of the fundamental nature of what exists.
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We will probably never find out the name of the first philosopher, because we must assume that philosophical thinking existed prior to the invention of writing. The spiritual thinking of the Australian aborigines might give us a hint about how philosophical thinking in ancient cultures operated. We have great works of art dating from the Paleotithic Age (the cave paintings from Lascaux, etc.), and there is no reason to doubt that the complexity of the religious and philosophical thinking of their creators was less than our own.
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