ABSTRACT
Philosophy becomes in many instances a verbal game with no links to reality and to judiciously constructed sentences. Usually, towards the end of an age, and representing that end, philosophy risks becoming a school-philosophy. It is then surrounded not only with an excess personnel of epigones, but also with an excess of words, formulas, and abstractions. Analogically in philosophy, in the name of pure reason, thought abstracted itself from the real world and chose a kind of second career among self-constructed notions. Contrary to the Eastern and Southern search for the soul's quietude, Western philosophy is the product of the dialectics of the mind and proceeds in the spirit of mobility, criticism and contradiction, affirmation and refutation. Whether Greek philosophy represented progress over the disparate pieces of wisdom scattered through the minds of Indian, Persian, Egyptian, and Chinese individuals and groups.
