Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
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Xenophanes held some vague concept of a single deity that was ‘in no way like men in shape or in thought’ but rather ‘causing all things by the thought of his mind’.
Joel Sullivan
Is Xenophanes the first to observe monotheism?
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Philosophical certainties could not be had, according to Xenophanes, for even if we chance to hit upon the truth, there is no way of knowing for certain that things are as we think they are.
Joel Sullivan
Roussue? This is a disturbing but thoroughly possible reflection. Think OT Job.