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Let us grant, with Couloubaritsis, that philosophy is by definition a historical enterprise. If we accept that the birth of Greek philosophy took place as a consequence of a new, more radical form of astonishment, and if we accept that this astonishment leads philosophers to more radically question their experience of being in the world, that is, to drastically shuffle the dogmatic, imposed or naive interpretations of it, then it is quite natural to see philosophy as a matter of interpreting the world in an ever new, different and critical way. In other words, it is natural to define it as a construction of historical meanings (cf. Couloubaritsis, 1994, pp. 11–21).
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Van De Vijver, G. (1998). Evolutionary Systems and the Four Causes: A Real Aristotelian Story?. In: van de Vijver, G., Salthe, S.N., Delpos, M. (eds) Evolutionary Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1510-2_18
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