Kenneth Shouler
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“Like other Ionian philosophers, Thales believed in the doctrine of hylozoism . This theory says that matter possesses life, or sensation. In other words, life and matter are inseparable. Soul is in substances. This may be the explanation of another saying attributed to him. A story goes that he saw metal filings being drawn to a magnet. He could not account for how this happened and proclaimed, “Everything is full of gods.”
― The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy: Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time
― The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy: Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time
“In the Old Testament it is stated that man shall have “dominion” over the animals. Bentham may have been the first to denounce that dominion and call it tyranny.”
― The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy: Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time
― The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy: Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time
“The first three “pre-Socratic” philosophers were Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.”
― The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy: Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time
― The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy: Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time
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