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... scânteia de divinitate. ∗ Orice elev din zilele noastre îl depăşe şte pe Thales, fiind mai informat, nu şi mai în ţelept. ∗ Cel ce se dezice de D...
...CT ON OUR BEAUTIFUL GREEN PLANET EARTH 80 THE EARLY HISTORY OF BIOLOGY 81 THE BIOLOGY OF ANTIQUITY 81 THE BIOLOGY OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN ERA 83 THALES (624 - 546 BC) Greek Philosopher 84 PYTHAGORAS (560 - 480 BC) Greek Philosopher 84 DEMOCRITUS (470 - 380 BC) Greek Philosopher 84 EMPEDOCLES (492 - 432 BC) Greek Philosopher 84 EUCLID (325 - 270 BC) Greek Mathemati...
...future polemic edition. 6 “In another life, probably, my name was Thales” I. MODELLING OF RATIONALITY 1. A SPECULATIVE EXISTENTIAL MODEL OF... ...that famous rational entities such as Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, Thales of Miletus, Bach, Mozart, Gauss, etc. exploited their ″memories″ rep... ...e rematerialization phenomenon is encountered at the ancient philosopher, Thales of Miletus. He ″saw″ the material and the spiritual reality as two ... ...consecutive ″transformations″ of the two realities one into another. Like Thales, other representatives of the Ionian philosophical school were conce... ...ns; each of them deemed as a primordial element of the world either water (Thales), air (Anaximander) or fire (Heraclitus of Ephes). Although the tr... ...l monads which formerly were integrant parts of rational entities such as Thales, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant and Malebranche, Husserl and Leibn...
...cal Association, Washington, 1973. [ 7] Burnet, John, "Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato", St. Martin's Press, Inc., New York, 1962. [ 8] Carr‚, M... ...tems, Vol. 84, 1996, No. 3, 271-281. [35] Burnet, John, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato, St. Martin's Press, Inc., New York, 1962. [36] Bustince,...
...red both the one and other betweene sweetnes and sowrenes. I first taught Thales, the chiefest of your Sages and Wisemen, that to live and die were ... .... And Empedocles refused the royaltie which the Agrigentines offered him. Thales sometimes accusing the carke and care men tooke about good busbandr... ... their most active and flourishing age into the world, in imitation of of Thales. We have http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/1xxxviii.htm (5 ... ...pinesse and comfort; So do I, and many others, the want of them. And when Thales was demanded wherefore he did not marrie, he answered, because he w... ...hen marry; and condemneth their breed as unworthy of life and sustenance. Thales appointed the best limits, who by his mother being instantly urged ... ...ed that they understood them, as Apollonius Thyaneus, Melampus, Tiresias, Thales, and others. And if it be (as Cosmographers report that there are na... ...uching a subtil pranke and witty tricke, is there any so famous as that of Thales the philosopher's mule, which, laden with salt, passing thorow a ri... ...o have learned nothing. Pherecydes, one of the seven wise men, writing to Thales even as he was yeelding up the ghost, 'I have,' saith he, 'appoynte... ...as they are pardonable, they entered into admiration and reverence of it. Thales, who was the first to enquire and find out this matter, esteemed Go...
...ecause they were the substance of who he was. As the founder of philosophy, Thales, stated, everything was made of water. Sang Huin, this Shawn or Se... ...self in a beautiful garden of undiscovered geysers. A dilemma was the air of Thales, the water of Anaximenes, and the fire of Heraclitus. These forces...
... to provoke an understanding in a listener as to why and how something is as it is. Thales, Empedocles and Anaxagoras were mostly concerned with off...
...azor to the midwife, and she her swadling-cloaths to the barber. Accordingly Thales Milesius (who like the rest of his countrymen, borrow d his learni...
...t that brought out of Ionia the scattered works of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete to prepare and mollify the Spartan surliness with his ...
...most renowned for their learning all their wisdom in state matters was one Thales, whom Lycurgus, by importunities and assurances of friendship, persu... ...ited in a com- mon admiration of virtue. So that it may truly be said that Thales prepared the way for the discipline introduced by Lycurgus. From Cre... ...to whom the Gauls near the Rhine were much attached. Some report also that Thales and Hippocrates the mathematician traded; and that Plato defrayed th... ...alone. 135 Plutarch’s Lives And, indeed, it is probable that at that time Thales alone had raised philosophy above mere practice into speculation; an... ...- ing to present it to the wisest man; and first it was sent to Miletus to Thales, the Coans freely presenting him with that for which they fought aga... ...h that for which they fought against the whole body of the Milesians; but, Thales declaring Bias the wiser person, it was sent to him; from him to ano... ...sent to him; from him to another; and so, going round them all, it came to Thales a second time; and, at last, being carried from Miletus to Thebes, w... ...phrastus writes that it was first presented to Bias at Priene; and next to Thales at Miletus, and so through all it returned to Bias, and was afterwar... ...Bathycles had left. It is stated, that Anacharsis and Solon, and Solon and Thales, were familiarly acquainted, and some have delivered parts of their ...
...ed the one and the other betwixt plea- sure and pain. It was I that taught Thales, the most eminent of your sages, that to live and to die were indiff... ... that Empedocles refused the royalty that the Agrigentines offered to him. Thales, once inveigh- ing in discourse against the pains and care men put t... ... their industry, have raked so much together.— [Diogenes Laertius, Life of Thales, i. 26; Cicero, De Divin., i. 49.]—That which Aristotle reports of s... ...st active and flourishing age in the world’s service, after the example of Thales. We have lived enough for others; let us at least live out the small... ...e others, think it as great a benefit to be without them. And when you ask Thales why he does not marry, he tells you, because he has no mind to leave...
...of a prince, to be secret, if a man be not a liar to boot. If he who asked Thales the Milesian whether he ought solemnly to deny that he had committed... ...ought not to do it; for I look upon lying as a worse fault than the other. Thales advised him quite contrary, bidding him swear to shield the greater ... ...ss; [Montaigne’s memory here serves him ill, for the question being put to Thales, his answer was: “But is not perjury worse than adultery?”—Diogenes ... ...ft to the Amazonian licence: Alexander marching his army through Hyrcania, Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons, came with three hundred light horse of he...
..., of learning and of learned men. He met at the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal mast...
...urious habits. For it is well known that he himself gladly kept Terpander, Thales, and 395 Plutarch’s Lives Pherecycles, though they were strangers, ...
...seful to those who make a point of getting money, as in the contrivance of Thales the Milesian (which was certainly a gainful one, but as it was his i... ...they chose it, but that that was not what they aimed at; in this manner is Thales said to have shown his wisdom. It indeed is, as we have said, gener-... ...ans for getting money inconsis- tent with his affairs. This man’s view and Thales’s was exactly the same; both of them contrived to procure a monopoly... ...here he continued some time to learn the prophetic art: and they say, that Thales was his companion; and that Lycurgus and Zaleucus were the scholars ... ...les was his companion; and that Lycurgus and Zaleucus were the scholars of Thales, and Charondas of Zaleucus; but those who advance this, advance what... ... censured, 54; spent much time at Crete, 57; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64 Lysander wanted to abolish the kingly power in Sparta, 143 Magis... ...mperance in a man different from a woman, 74 Temples, how to be built, 223 Thales, his contrivance to get money, 21; supposed to be the companion of ... ...cus, legislator of the Western Locrians, 64; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64 To Return to the Electronic Classics Series page, go to http://w...
... the distinction is quite marked between the succession of philosophers from Thales to Aristotle, and the Sophists of the age of Socrates, who appeare... ...o there had only existed a tumultuous chaos of mythological fancy , but when Thales said ‘All is water’ a new era began to dawn upon the world. Man wa...
...st that brought out of Ionia the scattered works of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete to prepare and mollify the Spar tan surliness with his...
... perfectly educated man is capable of uttering such expres sions. Such were Thales of Miletus, and Pittacus of Mitylene, and Bias of Priene, and our ...
...ld at chance, Diogenes, With Heraclitus, and Empedocles, And Anaxagoras, and Thales sage, Zeno, and Dioscorides well read In nature’s secret lore. Orp...
...m; Democritus, who ascribes the world to chance; Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Zeno; and I saw the good collector of t...
...e things which are most precious in their nature. Accordingly, Anexagoras, Thales, and men of that stamp, people call Scientific, but not Practi- call...
...and-fifty, and condemns their offspring as unwor- thy of aliment and life. Thales gave the truest limits, who, young and being importuned by his mothe...
...and; Democritus, who puts the world on chance, Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Zeno, Empedocles, and Heraclitus; Of qualities I saw the good col...
...ere any invention of his, applicable to the arts or to human life, such as Thales the Milesian or Anacharsis the Scythian, and other ingenious men ha...
...v- ery fine genius has essayed to represent by some em- phatic symbol, as, Thales by water, Anaximenes by air, Anaxagoras by (Nous) thought, Zoroaster...
...lled with straw, said, Henceforth, gentlemen, do not reject the opinion of Thales the Milesian, who said that wa- ter is the beginning of all things, ...
... mother country The schools of the two oldest Greek philosophers, those of Thales and Pythagoras, were established, it is remarkable, not in ancient G...