[vinceguidry]

If you go look at Eastern philosophy, to this day it looks similar to how you're describing Socrates. Philosophy couldn't completely separate from theology back in Socrates' day but in later Greek writings you see the split fully manifest.

In one relatively small collection of nations, a mode of thought that was completely novel to the rest of the world was dreamed up. That way of thinking completely changed the world, so much that that way of thinking seems totally normal today.

When modern theological philosophers try to explain the Trinity, they use Greek ideas. In fact, the whole idea of the Trinity just falls out of a philosophical way of looking at it. The Eastern Christian Church doesn't use the doctrine.

Any time we talk about "the West," we're talking about a way of looking at things that originated with ancient Greece.