Let us say that what we call “Western philosophy” is secondary to the advent of the world’s first thoroughly monetized economy. The first two philosophers, who, not insignificantly, were alive during this advent, were Thales and Anaximander, the latter the younger contemporary and student of the former, both dying in the same year, 585 B.C.. Anaximander was remembered by Aristotle as the first person to draw a map of the world. What I’d like to suggest here—only suggest—is that making a map of the world draws from the same logic as “Western philosophy,” a logic born with the theogony of money.