米利都的泰勒斯
自然可以从自然本身来解释，而不必借助神话——而水是万物所由来的基本材料。
定位
自亚里士多德以来被视为第一位希腊哲学家：他试图用自然而非神话来解释世界。
核心思想
- 水为始基（本原，arché）
- 以自然解释取代神话
学生: 阿那克西曼德
影响
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阿那克西曼德 教过
教过 存在争议 后世传述 ✓
Known only from later tradition – Theophrastus’ ‘successor and pupil of Thales’, preserved by Simplicius (In Physica 24.13), and the Ionian succession in Diogenes Laertius 1.13; the succession may be a later construction. Simplicius, In Physica 24.13 Diels (DK 12 A9, after Theophrastus); Diogenes Laertius 1.13
依据: 亦见于 Wikidata · Wikidata
阿那克西曼德 › 约公元前610—前546年年
立场
Thales is remembered as the first to ask what the world is ultimately made of and to answer without appealing to the gods of myth. According to Aristotle, he held that water is the origin (archē) of all things – perhaps because moisture is present in all life, in nourishment and in seeds. He is also said to have claimed that “all things are full of gods” and that the magnet has a soul, suggesting a living, self-moving nature. What mattered was less the answer than the method: a single natural principle, open to argument and correction. With him begins the Milesian tradition of natural philosophy.
生平与背景
Thales lived in Miletus, a wealthy Greek trading city on the coast of Asia Minor, in the early sixth century BCE. Later tradition credits him with predicting a solar eclipse (usually dated to 585 BCE), with theorems of geometry and with practical work in astronomy and engineering. He left no writings; we know of him through Aristotle and later reports.
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