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| 21355 | The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' |
| Full Idea: The problem with making naturalism the hallmark of Pre-Socratic thought ...is that they do not always 'leave the gods out'; the Divine can usually be found lurking somewhere is their cosmologies. | |||
| From: Armand Marie LeRoi (The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science [2014], 007) | |||
| A reaction: An important observation. I've been guilty of this simplistic view. We tend to ignore the religious fragments, or we possess so little that we have no idea where religion figured in their accounts. |