Why were Greeks so good at philosophy

>>2921007
Because they turned it into a business. Their writings became popular because they pandered to the mass market of the reading public.

>>2921007
I'd say a large part of it was because they had a very good economy. You can't have a large intellectual class without excess production of food and other necessities.

http://historum.com/blogs/guaporense/934-long-run-economic-performance-ancient-greece.html

was greek philosophy really more advanced than egyptian philosophy?

Black genetics
http://africaunlimited.com/blog/was-socrates-black/

>>2921007
because they separated it from religion

>>2921007
To be fair I've never actually seen any Babylonian or Egyptian philosophers.

What is this Egyptian and Babylonian philosophy everyone assumes it even existed while nobody can name a single philosopher or text, let alone prove that they influenced anyone. Pro tip: Herodotus and co saying Pythagoras studied under the "Chaldeans", etc does not constitute proof of either.

>>2921283
It didn't exist. Egyptians and Babylonians had their religion. That's it.

>>2921284
>>2921283
Babylonians had semi philosophical texts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_of_Pessimism

>>2921308
That's fair. Although it should be noted that biblical wisdom literature was influenced by Greek thought, so if Dialogue of Pessimism is parallel to wisdom literature it probably derived somewhat from Greeks.

>>2921322
It was composed soon after 1000 bc

Basically circumstences
They had the right people at the right time

>>2921330
oh okay. And after looking into it again maybe it was in retrospect that wisdom literature had Greek influence.

but many afrocentric people claim that Socrates, Plato and Aristotle studied under Egypt and learned philosophy


so are you guys claiming that Egypt didn't have a philosophical tradition like Greece had?

>>2921481
yes

Egypt really did not have a philosophical tradition, it was mostly their religion like what many people already said in this thread

Isn't it Eurocentric to say Greece had a much more systematic philosophy than Egypt?