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Guille · 06-11-2005, 11:13 PM

But then also the first scientist was.....

It doesn't work with me. I mean, the first "strict" philosopher. I have seen in many web pages that it was Thales of Miletus, because he was the first one that got from the misticism, theist, and other supernatural explenations, to have a rational way of looking at nature. He is said to be also the father of science because he studied nature. Although sometimes it's said that what greeks did was philosophy of nature, because they didn't do empirism.

EDIT: here I am talking about greek philosophers on the thread, not including oriental philsophers because these had a different divelopment and method.

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Guille The Thinker Status: Offline Posts: 3,278 Thanks Given: 14 Thanked 9x in 9 Posts Join Date: Mar 2005 Rep Power: 47	06-11-2005, 11:13 PM But then also the first scientist was..... It doesn't work with me. I mean, the first "strict" philosopher. I have seen in many web pages that it was Thales of Miletus, because he was the first one that got from the misticism, theist, and other supernatural explenations, to have a rational way of looking at nature. He is said to be also the father of science because he studied nature. Although sometimes it's said that what greeks did was philosophy of nature, because they didn't do empirism. EDIT: here I am talking about greek philosophers on the thread, not including oriental philsophers because these had a different divelopment and method.