7 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16756 | Substantial forms must exist, to explain the stability of metals like silver and tin [Albertus Magnus] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22236 | The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault] |
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] |