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1. Presocratic Philosophers

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   The Presocratic philosophers constitute the earliest phase of ancient Greek philosophy, primarily active from the 6th to the 5th centuries BCE, preceding Socrates. These thinkers initiated the systematic investigation into the nature of reality, shifting the explanatory framework from traditional mythology to reasoned inquiry, or logos. Their central preoccupation was identifying the fundamental underlying principle, or arche, from which all observable phenomena originated and to which they u…