Untitled Haiku Deck
Published on Dec 11, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
C.625-545 B.C.
- Considered to be the first western philosopher
- Son of examyes and cleobuline
- Born in Miletus
- Could count military engineering
- Wrote a guide for mariners and managed to amass a fortune by using his astronomical theories
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THALES' WORLD VIEW
- World derives from water
- World rests on water
- World is full of Gods
- Soul produces motion
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"METAPHYSICS"
- Everything comes out of water
- Rejected supernatural and mystical theories
- Tries to explain the world by hypothesis
- Tried to discover the substance from which everything in nature is made off of
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MATTER
- Principles in the form of matter were the only principles of all things
- Where "principle" is arche , "matter" is hyle (wood or matter , material)
- Water is the first principle
- World started from water
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