Thales

Arche

• Thales reportedly said that the basic stuff was water: this could mean that everything comes from water as the originating source or that everything really is water in one form or another 

• The earth rests on water, floating like wood 

Ensouled

• “All things are full of Gods” One standard view, this means that the world as a whole is ensouled a view common to early physicists

• Thales thought that souls produces motion and that a magnetic lodestone has soul because it causes iron to move 

• He wouldn't go as far to say he believed in hylozoism which is the view that matter is alive or ensouled 

overview

• One of the Seven Sages of Greece

• Astronomer, mathematician, engineer

• Predicted the eclipse of 585 BC

• fell into a well because he was so focused on the stars

• According to Aristotle, he was the first of the physiologoi.

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