8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
15663 | Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the Enlightenment to 'critical theory' analysis [Adorno/Horkheimer, by Finlayson] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20572 | De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder [Adorno/Horkheimer] |
7350 | The Torah just says: do not do to your neighbour what is hateful to you [Hillel the Elder] |
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] |