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The early philosophy of the ancient Greece was called as “philosophy of nature”. These philosophers were considered as early “scientists” who were attempting to deal with the laws and the order of the nature. The first philosophers were those who speculated on natural events. They aimed to explain the principles of the order of cosmos and to understand the order of society. Thus, while some philosophers, such as Pythagoras from the Elea school, sought the order in mathematical principles, some others, such as the material monist like Thales, Anaximenes, Anaximender, found it in some material elements, such as earth, water, air, or fire. Although the latter group of philosophers was materialist rather than idealist, they were called as “abstract materialists”. Finally, there were also some philosophers, such as Democritus and Epicurus, who tried to understand the transformation of the universe and the movement of cosmos. These early investigations only partly aimed to deal with the social life.