Best of Week: How Did Philosophy Evolve From Time To Time?

Best of Week: How Did Philosophy Evolve From Time To Time?

As the days went by without me noticing, I got much familiar with the philosophical book Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.  As I got much familiar with the story plot, I've started to realize and understand the main ideas introduced in this book which has previously been confusing and seemed quite broad.  So far, I've been able to organize and find the connection between early philophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.  What I've found interesting from this was that these 3 philosophers were connected like a steps in a ladder.  To be more specific,  everytime you took a step farther above the ladder, the level of philosophic thinking evolved one step further than previous generation.  Another interesting fact I've learned as a process of reading was that there were several opposing arguments from different philosophers that led to the advancement in the level of philosophy.

However, there was more important fact that came to my mind after organizing these important thoughts.  I think that after learning about the process that philosophic thinking has been through, I've started to think about the process of how everything became how it is now more often than I used to in the past.  Additionally,since I'm currently learning about the formation of Earth and the life on Earth in AP Environmental Science class in school,  I'm starting to question more specifically about a subject and getting more into the basis of it.  For instance, when we learn about the evolution of animals on the planet Earth, I now use my philosophical knowledge in order to answer the questions which has not been possible with just a scientific knowledge itself.  Even though it is really useful in some cases, there are times when this idea of thinking is slow and more stressing way.  Since I have to think about every possibility and the outcome of certain activity.  Afterall, The positive side of the philosophic thinking seems to outweigh the negative side of it.