When Men Began To Think: Revisiting the Ancient Asian Thinking

I got an e-mail from a friend. It's an invite to attend the Alternative University where the topic for that specific date is "When Men Began to Think" which says about how Socrates, Plato and Aristotle shaped the world. I felt a sudden panic inside me. Being a philosophy enthusiast, I just can not nod to its title completely.
While the eastern thinkers were already focused to a more profound distinction between Monism and Dualistic Theism (that is between full-fledged Monistic mysticism in which God or Godhead is understood as non-different from the Self; e.g. Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Sh…