8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
20435 | If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless [Adorno] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22474 | Unlike aesthetic evaluation, moral evaluation needs a concept of responsibility [Foot] |
22472 | The practice of justice may well need a recognition of human equality [Foot] |
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] |