The First Western Enlightenment

We often read those cliché references, such as, who is the father of philosophy, the father of science, of astronomy, and so on. Thales of Miletus has been called by scholars the father of science. Probably because he was the earliest thinker to seek naturalistic explanations of the phenomena, away from intervention by the gods, showing the way towards scientific endeavor. We might say that Thales marked the beginning of the first…