Andrew Schulz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is just the culmination of centuries of this beginning.
It really begins with the pre-Socratic philosophers in ancient Greece, so like Athens.
So pre-Socratic means all the scholars before Socrates.
Socrates wasn't really a scholar.
He was more like a hobo.
That was super, you know, really smart and thoughtful guy.
But...
It's this idea of pondering your own existence and pondering reality and thinking about how does a man master himself and what is the purpose of my existence and what is the reality of nature itself?
What is nature?
What is my nature?
This all started in Athens, pretty much.
And it really explodes...
During – about 450 BC, there's this classical Athenian period that's framed by two wars.
You've got the Persian Wars and then you've got the Peloponnesian Wars.
The Persian Wars is actually the first Persian Wars where like Leonidas is standing –
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is at Thermopylae.
Yeah, the stand at Thermopylae.
That's the Persian war.