11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
16718 | Primary qualities are the cause of all the other sensible qualities [Albertus Magnus] |
22808 | Liberalism is minimal government, or individual rights, or equality [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22803 | Can individualist theories justify an obligation to fight in a war? [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22804 | Autonomy is better achieved within a community [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22806 | Communitarians avoid oppression for the common good, by means of small mediating communities [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22807 | If our values are given to us by society then we have no grounds to criticise them [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
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] |