Weibe/Western Epistemic Tradition, 3. From Myth to Proto-Science

There is significant agreement among philosophers and historians that social, economic, and political conditions in ancient Greece made possible the emergence of a new, non-mythical, mode of thought. The philosophy of the pre-Socratic cosmologists from the Milesians to the atomists gave birth to a new cultural value of knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone that made possible the eventual emergence of modern scientific thinking.