A green plate with a smiley face made of various fruits: two red apples for eyes, a green key lime for the nose, and a yellow banana for the mouth.
We're just getting going, so I'm assuming you already ate a good breakfast...
Besides, these are really pre-philosophers, but they stretched the minds of their time, so let's jump to stretching out ours...
ABC News: Abraham's Story: Foundation of Judaism, Islam and Christianity
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/abrahams-story-foundation-judaism-islam-christianity-18042173
Good stretch? Great! Save your strength for now…
Marquee sign with bright lights, displaying 'Now Playing: The Main Event' in bold black letters.
Not saying there's no "main event" here, just not yet in terms of philosophy…
Silhouettes of seven runners in shades of orange, yellow, and red running from left to right, with the caption "Spirit of the Marathon" beneath them.
...what Sophie's World wants you to understand is that if the Greeks established the "training methods" European philosophy would follow, these folks (and the advent of Christianity) built the gym, set the track, and laid out the field where those games would be played (Hence chapter 1 is called “The Garden of Eden”).
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Abraham 1800 BCE - 1600 BCE (approx.) from Sophie’s World
(First appears in the chapter titled "Two Cultures")