This book is distinguished by its author, Dr. Ahmed Fouad Al-Ahwani, if he was not just repeating the opinions of his predecessors, was not just presenting ideas, like a fashion model. Rather, he was resorting to comparing and balancing many opinions. He assured us that philosophy does not live in isolation from society, but rather that the philosopher has his social and political role, and that the progress of societies can only be achieved by adopting reason, with reasons and causes. The renaissance of the East occurred when it resorted to reason, and its delay occurred when it moved away from reason and the reasonable.
According to the testimony of philosophy professors in Arab universities, this book is considered one of the greatest Arabic books in the field of pre-Socratic Greek philosophy. In a study of philosophical schools and personalities, Fouad Al-Ahwani relies on the most reliable sources and references, which are considered the mothers of Greek philosophy in the field of writing, and compares many opinions and ideas. And theories before presenting to us the opinion that he takes and prefers to other opinions, and there are many of them. In his approach, he relies on studying the texts of philosophers, as they are the criterion based on which we accept an opinion and reject another opinion, or prefer one opinion over another, and there are many such opinions in the field of the history of philosophers before Socrates.
It is noted that Al-Ahwani, in his study of the history of Greek philosophy, followed a specific approach, which is to study the history of philosophy from the perspective of civilization.