Moja krotka historia filozofii starozytnej
My brief history of ancient philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the nature of ancient philosophy. What was it? Was it a search for the truth of the nature? Or was it more a lifestyle, consciously chosen and developed? The above interpretations are considered as contradictory. However, in my opinion, in Greek philosophy world and man were not distinct from each other. The Greeks saw universe as a unity encompassing everything that exists, including human beings and even gods. Greek philosophers were interested not only in physical world; they focused also on a question how a man should live. With time, this question became the most important: philosophy became a way of intellectual and spiritual exercise, leading to a good life and finally to happiness. I stress this ‘exercising’ dimension as inseparable from all philosophical inquiry in antiquity.

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