8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22102 | Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods [Aquinas] |
22333 | Only language is understandable Being [Gadamer] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20928 | Facts don't oppose values; they are integrated into each person's aspirations [Gadamer, by Zimmermann,J] |
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] |