the complex of inferiority in the motherland of philosophy
…The other day — Thursday — was World Philosophy Day, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) decided to celebrate it for the very first time. In the country that produced the very first purely philosophical discourse — the Greek Pre-Socratics — the country that, with incredible boldness and insight, tried to explain the world beyond myths, religious beliefs, superstitions, and prejudices; the country that gave the world the giants who laid the foundations for almost every philosophical current… they sat there like little schoolchildren. Before the emergence of philosophy, the dominant way of explaining the world was based on myth. “The basic characteristics of mythical thinking were: • Anthropomorphism: Natural phenomena (e.g., thunder, earthquakes, the sun) were explained as acts or expressions of the will of gods and heroes who had human form and qualities. • Arbitrariness: Events happened because of the personal, unlimited power of deit...