the history of philosophy, a.c. grayling - 1 introduction, philosophy before plato
introduction for almost all of its history ‘philosophy’ had the general meaning of ‘rational enquiry’, though from the beginning of modern times in the renaissance until the nineteenth century it more particularly meant what we now call ‘science’ what we now call “philosophy” was marked by labels such as “metaphysics” and “moral philosophy” to distinguish it from what we now call “science”. the word “scientist” was coined in 1833, since which the words “philosophy” and “science” took on their current meanings ...