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We refer to the man of one group, the Pre-Socratics. In reality, they are brilliant, independent thinkers. They asked hugely ambitious scientific questions. What is the cosmos made of? What is matter and how do we perceive it? Their answers in some cases undermine the role of the Gods as the ruler of the cosmos. Their abstract theories obviously conceived with the help of scientific instruments that the university was made of atoms and empty space and water was the fundamental element of the world and the sun was one giant red hot rock were worldly provocative. The scale and audacity of their thinking was breathtaking.The presocratics not only struck the core traditional belief,but their use of reason opened up a new way looking into the entirety of human experience ,an approach eagerly taken up by the young socrates. Technically, it nor just the tradition, the myth or the religious hierarchy that tell you how to make sense of the world, but rational debate,systematic thought, just like those other groundbreaking philosophy of the age -Confucius in China and Budism in what is now in India. Socrates and his contemporaries are daring to harness the power of the mind to explain the world around them. This is a quantum  shift.