After Reading History of Philosophy

History is history. I can’t rewrite it, rebel it, but I can elaborate it in short. Philosophy is everywhere. All cultures have had their own. Based on my reading on Wikipedia, there are four periods of philosophy history which are the Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary. First of all, most of researches show around 585 B.C. the western philosophy began in the Greek city Miletus where Thales was the first philosopher who believed “all is water”. After that there are many philosopher appeared in Athens such as Heraclitus, the Sophists and so on. However, the most important three philosophers are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They influence a lot until nowadays. Second, the medieval period runs from late 15^th century to the Renaissance. In this period, most of the philosophers concerned with Christianity. They tried to prove the God was existing. However, later on, because of the Reformation and the Renaissance, philosophers dedicated to Humanism and empiricism. In this period from post-Medieval to 20^th century we called Modern Philosophy. The most famous philosophers in this period are Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes, and Sir Isaac Newton and so on. Finally, contemporary philosophy existed after 20^th century. There are many conflicts which philosophers tried to rebel the old knowledge and create new logical, economic, and so on.

In addition, it doesn’t like Western Philosophy that the ancient Greek philosophy influenced most of the western philosophy, so we introduce it from period to period. However, Eastern Philosophy is separated from area to area. For example, the top five philosophies in Eastern culture are Chinese Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Iranian Philosophy, Japanese Philosophy, and Korean Philosophy. Nevertheless, both Chinese philosophy and Indian philosophy influence mostly.

P.S. even though it is not very detailed, I already do my best to use my own words to illustrate the history of philosophy.