Monday, November 9, 2009

Philosophy for the Millions

The founder of Philosophy, Thales, is author of the Ionic sect born according to the best calculation in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C., thought the universe was all embracing whole developed germ and that water the all powerful sustainer of life. In those times, scholars had already considered the sun, mountains, earth, sea, rivers as independent powers to be revered as gods, but Thales, thought God is water. There is even a science called Thalassography, a physical geography that treats the sea, the word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea.

In knowledge is the eye of the mind rise to the universal light, lightens all things, and beholds absolute good, not as a heroic performer whose chief pursuit is to act, but simply as a matter of beholding the light of day.

Pythagoras was a rare philosophical genius who could predict things. When he landed in the Bay of Tarentum, at Crotona in Italy around 530 B.C on his way to town come across some fishermen who had caught none fish all day were leaving to go home. Pythagoras called upon them to draw the nets one more time and predicted the number of fish they would catch this time.

The fishermen guffawed in disbelief at his prophecy said if his prophecy were right they promised to be his followers forever and do whatever Pythagoras wanted them to do.

The prophecy came true. Pythagoras told the fishermen first in order to followers throw the fish they caught back into the sea because Pythagorean eats no flesh.


The world of knowledge is the power upon which to act rationally, either in public or private life. Socrates is considered the wisest of all people from his youth upward are courageous, temperate, holy, free, and the like. All these virtues became his second Nature like a breeze from a purer world, drawing into likeness and sympathy with reason.

When I was thirty years old, I began studying philosophy, being drawn off into another brook, directed towards things all in order moving towards purpose.

Through some inherent reason, I had my eyes opened and little by little, I learned philosophy. Reason lies in conquering. When an entire self has succeeded in canceling self to do, good in the world is reason.
Pythagoras from his youth upward was courageous, temperate, holy, free, and the like. All were second Nature. He was gifted breeze from a purer world, drawing a likeness and sympathy to reason.


Virtue is the course of spiritual life that requires giving up individuality. Reason that is deeper than self, finds expression in others. Self requires only self-certainty, whereas reason a certain awareness of one and other must be realized.

There are a gallery of noble philosophers through out history. Thales a person of rare genius was the author of the Ionic sect is the founder of philosophy according to the best calculation he was born in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C.

Philosophy made its appearance with Thales and Pythagoras 600 B.C; the spirit of Greece had apathy and insensitiveness worked out. They were profound thinkers exalted in knowledge and truth, justice, courage, and temperance. Thales was one of the seven wise men of ancient Greek philosophy and introduced geometry to measure the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea. It is believed he used calculus to estimate the sea; Water Thales thought the supreme sustainer of life.

The same as there are generations of plants there are generation of philosophers and anything that is generated for a certain time is a gift of spiritual life, a virtuous consciousness and each generation plays the role of carrying out their purpose.

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