Edge of Reason: The Pre-Socratic Philosophers and the Birth of Logical Thought

We tend to think, rather arrogantly, that we live in an enlightened age, that we and our immediate forebears invented reason and logical thought. The truth of the matter is that this is far from the case. In fact, some two-and-a-half millennia prior to our own time, logic and reason were the driving forces behind Western thought and philosophy, even before great minds like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ever even dreamt up their own ideas. Tune in to the first episode of 2025 to discover the initial stirrings of reason and logic by the brilliant minds of the so-named Pre-Socratic Philosophers!