Western philosophy can be divided into three eras: 1 Ancient ( Greco-Roman) 2 Medieval philosophy (referring to Christian European thought) 3 Modern philosophy (beginning in the 17th century)

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In this sense, philosophy is closely related to religion, mathematics, natural science, education, and politics. In section thirteen of his Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers, the oldest surviving history of philosophy (3rd century), Diogenes Laërtius presents a three-part division of ancient Greek philosophical inquiry: