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: Moses on Mount Sinai: The Ten Commandments
Good stretch? Great! Save your strength for now…
Not saying there's no "main event" here, just not yet in terms of philosophy…
...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”).
Are You Ready to Work Out with...
Moses
1400 BCE -
1200 BCE (approx.)
from
Sophie’s World
(First appears in the chapter titled
"Two Cultures")