Founders of Western Philosiphy
THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Founders of Western Philosophy: Thales to Hume Leonard Peikoff Lecture 1. The First Problem: Are There Any Absolutes? • The father of philosophy: Thales of Miletus. • The philosophy of flux: Heraclitus—“You cannot step into the same river twice”—change as the only absolute—Realityasaseriesof contradictions. • TheparadoxesofZeno. • The mind-body opposition begins: the mathematical mysticism of the Pythagoreans.
