In “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”, Edith Hamilton makes a good assertion when describing how myths were like an early science for the Greeks. Mythology was the Greeks first attempt in trying to explain what they saw around them. Just like a child, the imagination of a human being does not use logic or reasoning for justifying something. Whilst we mature, we begin to question everything: Why? How come? What's that? Where from? These questions have long been ingrained into our humanity. Since the development of Greek mythology, the transition to major philosophical ideas began with the pre-Socratics. Their thinking and reaction to the Greek mythological framework caused a domino effect on how metaphysics and epistemology were later viewed. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were also major influences in the historical evolution of thought in the study of knowledge and the study of the natural reality during this era. …show more content…
They were materialists and were mainly concerned with trying to find the single underlying substance that the world is made up of without resorting to supernatural or mythological explanations. They used empiricism to figure out the oneness that the world was created of. Reductionism first emerged from Milesian thinker Thales, who tried to use a simple and more fundamental method of explaining the nature of reality and the kind of things that there are. After examining his environment, he concluded that everything came from water. In “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, Friedrich Nietzsche's emphasizes the importance of Thales proposition by stating that this was the first instance where an individual decided to use empiric insight in order to justify the nature of his surroundings. This was a step towards philosophical thinking and influenced many people to evaluate their