Philosophy's Origins

Every major philosophical tradition had its origins in conflict, and continued in conflict. In China, it began with the Hundred Schools of Thought. In India there was, from the start, the great separation between orthodox and heterodox schools. The European tradition began with the great division which Diogenes Laërtius later called the Ionian and Italianate. Not to speak of the many divisions within divisions. No new philosophy should go forward without a good grasp of the causes of our past confusion, or it seems unlikely that we shall escape it.