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While Jewish exiles preserved their faith in Babylon, Greek thinkers were laying the foundations of Western philosophy.
The 6th century BCE saw an explosion of philosophical inquiry in the Greek world. Thales, Anaximander, and Pythagoras asked fundamental questions about the nature of reality, mathematics, and the cosmos. This intellectual revolution was happening simultaneously with the Jewish exile — two very different civilizations grappling with ultimate questions about existence and meaning through very different methods.
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