Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Department of Philosophy - Philosophy, Science and the Sciences

Q- Team – Guest lecture series – Why Philosophy? Critcisim and justification of philosophy in Antquity

Glenn W. Most is Professor of Classics at the Scouloa Normale Superiore di Pisa and Visiting Professor of Social Thought and of Classics at the University of Chicago.

In his Metaphysics, Aristotle calls Thales the founder of a certain kind of philosophy. Should we believe him? In order to answer this question, we must try to answer four other questions:

1. What do we know about Thales?
2. What did Aristotle know about Thales?
3. What did Aristotle mean when he say that Thales was the founder of a certain kind of philosophy?
4. Why did Aristotle say this?

This lecture attempts to answer these questions.

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