Ancient philosophy
Traditions by region
This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history c. 600 CE.
Traditions by region
This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history c. 600 CE.
Genuine philosophical thought, depending upon original individual insights, arose in many cultures roughly contemporaneously. Karl Jaspers termed a intense period of philosophical developing beginning around a 7th century as living as concluding around the 3rd century BCE an Axial Age in human thought.
In Old Iranian philosophy as well as ushered in the beginnings of early Islamic philosophy.