Jody asked:

I am doing my mid term paper on the origins of philosophy. Could you please help me get started.

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Two possibilities present themselves to me.

1. Get a good dictionary of philosophy and look up the pre-Socratics. That should give you something
   to get started with.

2. Start from Aristotle's remark (Plato said something very similar) that 'philosophy begins in wonder'.
   Then look at what it is that people wonder about. Why do people wonder? What are the different sorts
   of questions that can be wondered about? How can we deal with the situation when there seem to be
   several plausible answers to our wonders, but we cannot see any clear way to be certain about which
   is right? That, for me, is the source of philosophy.

Tim Sprod