The Philosophy of Thales

Astrologers: Nooo, you must form conclusions as they’re observed.
Thales: 🗿

How do we think critically like Socrates? Is there a book that I can read to think critically?

Who’s offspring sill inspired fear in all today 😂 Thales 😂🤙 strike the stars 😂🧐🌩🤓😉

It's philposophy, so I am going to be pedantic. Europe culturally did not exist at this point in time. Greek philosophers did not see themselves as European, and were much more connected to North East Africa ( Egypt, Cyrene, etc.) and Mesopotamia than to Iberia or Scandinavia. Europe came into cultural existence during the waning years of the Roman empire and the ascendency of the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, and notions of Christendom contra the Dar al Islam (indeed, making Anatolia Easten European and Russia not European at all until the conversion of the Kievian Rus, more than a millenium removed from pre-socratic Greek philosophy. Records of didactic philosphy go back millenia before the pre-socratics in Mesoptomia and Egypt, and centuries before in India and China. The early Greek philsophers were very aware of at least the close traditions to the east. Intellectual engagment with people to the north and west was a much later devellopment, even though there were sophisticated mathematicians and law givers in pre-literate northern and western Europe. Basically, the cultural trend that situates the birth of what we mean by philosophy around the Agean and Sicily and writes it all in Greek is a notion those very writers would have been astounded by, and largely comes in its modern form from renaisance clasicism view through an enlightenment lens all wrppend up in the legacy of the medieval Trivium and the church schools and universites that fostered it and were reacted against. Also, Thales lived in Miletus, in modern Turkey. European much? The notion of ancient Greek philososophy as Europenan, I hope I have demonstrated, is therefore a superimpostion removed from the reality of the time by centuries of social, intellecual, and cultural devellopment.

Thales was Phoenician

Imagine the irony of Thales dying of dehydration !

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🌟🌟 Great fruitful session 🌟🌟

There were no doubt many who looked up into the heavens and questioned received dogma, but I’m glad this man is given the credit of being one of the first to try to make sense of things rationally.

Lol my Name is Thales

All of this information and no mention of him studying in what was likely then called K’Met or Nubia 🤦🏽‍♂️

Video, description, captions - You sir are a gentleman and a scholar!

Lol I thought u meant tales jhfdsafjk

I got really interested in the presocratic philosophers q couple years ago, and read about them. Thanks for the 6 mins fresher of Thales of Mellitus

Who are the other seven wise men?

Interesting someone with such a mind believed the earth as flat .