10 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] |
20575 | Socialist economics needs a very strong central power, virtually leading to slavery [Hayek, by Oksala] |
22599 | Hayek was a liberal, but mainly concerned with market freedom [Hayek, by Dunt] |
22600 | Impeding the market is likely to lead to extensive state control [Hayek] |
20543 | 'Social justice' is a confused idea, and inequalities need no justification [Hayek, by Swift] |
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] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |