History of human thought

The history of human thought covers the history of philosophy, history of science and history of political thought and spans across the history of humanity. The academic discipline studying it is called intellectual history.^[1]

Merlin Donald has claimed that human thought has progressed through three historic stages: the episodic, the mimetic, and the mythic stages, before reaching the current stage of theoretic thinking or culture.^[2] According to him the final transition occurred with the invention of science in Ancient Greece.^[3]

^ "Global Intellectual History". www.tandfonline.com. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
^ Donald, Merlin (1993). Origins of the Modern Mind : Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Harvard U.P. p. 215. OCLC 1035717909.
^ Watson, Peter. (2009) [2005]. Ideas : a history : from fire to Freud. Folio Society. p. 67. OCLC 417149155.

[1] "Global Intellectual History". www.tandfonline.com. Retrieved 2019-06-20.

[2] Donald, Merlin (1993). Origins of the Modern Mind : Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Harvard U.P. p. 215. OCLC 1035717909.

[3] Watson, Peter. (2009) [2005]. Ideas : a history : from fire to Freud. Folio Society. p. 67. OCLC 417149155.

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