8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
20441 | An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto] |
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] |