Who Started All This Philosophy Business?

[Philosophy Now]

Carl Murray reports on a heated argument in Hades.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/63/Who ... y_Business

[A_Seagull]

Carl Murray reports on a heated argument in Hades.
"it might be a useful exercise in group therapy if you could come up with a working definition of what a philosopher is, and then perhaps we can decide who was the first"

The first philosophers did not write anything and their memory is long lost in the mists of time. But their contribution is still with us: the ideas that we take for granted and that are 'obvious'; but someone had to think of them first. They were the philosophers.