TURNING POINTS IN HISTORYThe Greek Civilization
Three great thinkers came on the scene and philosophy was born naturally. Man finally questioned where he is , what he is, what is the right way to live alone and together, and what IS the world?
Thus was born Philosophy. This marked the birth of man, the ending, in principle, of dogmas, blindness and other forces ruling us.
Why? Because this was a real enquiry, and an actual desire to fully grasp the world, broadly.
Alas! The conclusions that were reached were still wrong because it was too early. The spirit of inquiry was right but the application of thinking was faulty.
Plato actually said that there was another reality as Philosophy and Mysticism was born in conscious terms.
Luckily his disciple Aristotle embraced this earth and man and posited a rational and natural philosophy and gave the fundamental rules of logic that are needed to think correctly and arrive at true knowledge. The concept of non contradiction that we take fro granted came into existence thanks to the then momentous contribution of Aristotle.
Thus inquiry began of what is this world in details. It goes on...even today...by a few.
Thus science was born but without full experimentation and rigorous observations. Thinking through logic was born but there was a confusion about how basically we must define truth.
Is it completely through what is or can we invent some truth of what might be just because we can imagine things?
The latter was part of the METHOD OF THINKING. In technical terms there was both induction and deduction and though science was born, it was not consciously , philosophically rooted in induction alone. But truth is derived from facts and then generalizations come. THIS insight would come later, as we will see.
Of course science did take a leap compared to before, at least man could know what he is and where he is!