8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
18203 | Avoid non-predicative classifications and definitions [Poincaré] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
4052 | It has become normal to consider passive euthanasia while condemning active euthanasia [Rachels] |
4053 | If it is desirable that a given patient die, then moral objections to killing them do not apply [Rachels] |
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] |