Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers

by Philip Stokes

Philosophy is lack of answers, consensus.

philosophers go about their business by challenging assumptions and concepts in order to generate new perspectives on recalcitrant problems.

Thales was the first thinker to try to account for the nature of the world without appealing to the wills and whims of anthropomorphic, Homerian gods.

First thinker to consider the nature, not mythologies.

According to Pythagoras, the ultimate nature of reality is number.

One maintained his religious and mystical teachings, while the other concentrated on his mathematical and scientific insights.