11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
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] |