DID PHILOSOPHY REALLY START IN MODERN-DAY LEBANON?
September 7, 2024Dr. Roy Casagranda, an American professor of political science, highlights how the founder of Greek philosophy wasn’t actually Greek but Phoenician, from the lands of modern-day Lebanon.
“Thales, the Greek philosopher who invented philosophy wasn’t greek… His family was from Lebanon, they were Phoenecians… A Phoenician invented philosophy in a Greek City in what is today Turkey.”
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English Script:
Roy Casagranda: Thales the Greek philosopher who invented philosophy, wasn’t Greek, he wasn’t Greek. Isn’t that cool? The guy who invented Greek philosophy wasn’t Greek. He lived in a Greek city. The city was called Miletus. Miletus is today in Turkey. He spoke Greek, but he also spoke Phoenician because his family was from Lebanon. They were Phoenicians. They had moved to Miletus for business purposes. He grew up in Miletus and then produced the world’s first ever work of philosophy, a book titled Water is Best a Phoenician invented Philosophy in a Greek city in what is today Turkey. What we do is we have this tendency to be selective with how we apply the identities, and that gets all sorts of messy.
