13 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
16541 | All the intrinsic properties of a thing should be deducible from its definition [Spinoza] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
13073 | To understand the properties we must know the essence, as with a circle [Spinoza] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
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] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |