Philosophical notes

Philosophy as a type of human activity and knowledge emerged more than 2500 years ago almost simultaneously in several centers of the cultural oikoumene of that time - in China India ancient Israel and later in ancient Greece. This period in the history of human civilization Karl Jaspers called the axial time in which philosophical teachings were born and some of these teachings became religions later. Philosophy if you restore the original etymology of this word is love of Sophia which is often and very accurately translated as love of wisdom. In fact the ancient Greek concept of Sophia is much more capacious and complex than just wisdom. If in Plato''s representation which has fixed in the European terminology the word philosophy the philosopher was just a wise man or loving to wisdom he would not introduce exactly this word philosopher speaking about love to Sofia and would stop simply on the word sage. The fact that Plato under Sofia did not mean the acquired subjective property of human mind but a certain great and decent only deity objective quality of a reasonably arranged and harmonious world.