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All the ideas for 'works', 'fragments/reports' and 'Philosophy as a way of life'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9198	It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

9197	The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

13007

Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

9196	The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]