PHIL 232 Lecture Notes - Ancient Greek Philosophy, Anaximander, Metempsychosis
8 Oct 2013
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Early greek society was highly literate: this even happened before the invention of actual writing. One of the reasons we are unsure if homer was a real person or a group. Story may have been retold and refined throughout generations. Milesians: thales from what is related about him, it seems that. Thales too held that the soul is something productive of motion, if indeed he said that the lodestone has soul, because it moves iron . Contrast with hesiod hesiod"s theogany seems much more complicated and sophisticated. First of all chaos came into being . Thales expresses no world view in this text ideas seem simpler (e. g. magnets have souls) From the quote about thales, this argument can be deduced: If anything has a self-starting motor, then it has a soul. Therefore lodestones have souls: aristotle wrote about thales hundreds of years after.
