8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
7350 | The Torah just says: do not do to your neighbour what is hateful to you [Hillel the Elder] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |