Philosophy. Philo-Sophia. The Love of Wisdom.
Operating at the highest levels of metaphysical abstraction and perspective, philosophers question, dialogue, reason, and present / write / speak in pursuit of the understanding about the most fundamental questions of existence. It was during this period of time that the main philosophies that continue to serve as the undergirding ideas of civilization began to be articulated and documented beyond oral form.
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