8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16541 | All the intrinsic properties of a thing should be deducible from its definition [Spinoza] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
13073 | To understand the properties we must know the essence, as with a circle [Spinoza] |
5996 | Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA] |
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] |