PHIL 2140 Lecture Notes - Cebes, Techne, Waterspout
4 Mar 2014
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India china (6th century bce) greece (6th century) Greek said there were 4 elements: fire (energy), water (liquid), air (gas), earth (solid) (aether; brightness of sky) Hot air (blood) sanguine fire (yellow bile; gall) choleric. Cold water (phlegm) phlegmatic earth (black bile) melancholic. Water principle of thing according to thales: water takes all three forms (all 3 conditions; gas, liquid solid, fluid; takes any shape. Earth rests on water (water is the primary element) Think cosmos is alive (need soul: breath; inspire), surrounded by air. << 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 >>. P. 15 (8. ) soul energy energy; ability to do work within itself. << some say the soul is mixed in with the whole universe and perhaps this is why thales supposed that all things are full of gods >>.
