ΘΑΛΗΣ Ο ΜΙΛΗΣΙΟΣ-ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΗ ΩΣ ΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ

THE PURPOSE OF MY DISSERTATION IS TO EXAMINE CLOSELY THE PROBLEM WHICH AROSE IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, SINCE IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT THALES OF MILETUS IS NOT A PHILOSOPHER. THIS POSITION, WHICH WAS SUPPORTED MAINLY IN OUR CENTURY BYCERTAIN SCHOLARS, IS OPPOSED TO THE TRADITIONAL VIEW, ACCORDING TO WHICH THALES OF MILETUS IS REGARDED AS THE "ARCHEGOS" (ΑΡΧΗΓΟΣ) OF NATURAL AND, MORE GENERALLY, OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY. IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM THE ANCIENT EVIDENCE WAS SUBJECTED TO SCRUTINY AND CRITICISM. SPECIAL ATTENTION WAS ALSO PAID TO THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THALES AS WELL AS TO THE DIVERSE THEORIES OF DISTINGUISHED THINKERS ABOUT THE RISE OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND ESPECIALLY OF THALES'S PHILOSOPHY. IN ADDITION, THE HISTORICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL PARAMETERS OF THALES'S TIMES AND MILIEU WERE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. THE RESEARCH LED TO THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSIONS: A) THE SCHOLARS WHO CAST DOUBT UPONTHALES AS A PHILOSOPHICAL FIGURE BASED THEMSELVES PRIMARILY ON DIOGENES LAERTIUS, WHOSE RELIABILITY IS CONTROVERSIAL. B) THALES CAN BE RIGHTLY CONSIDERED THE FOUNDER OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, AS HE WAS THE FIRST WHO INTRODUCED THE PRINCIPLE (ΑΡΧΗ) OF THE WORLD IN A RATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC WAY. FOR THALES, THE CONCEPT OF THE "PRINCIPLE" DID NOT ONLY SIGNIFY THE ORIGIN OR SOURCE OF ANYTHING AND PROBABLY THAT INTO WHICH EVERYTHING RETURNS AFTER PERISHING, BUT ALSO THE PRIMARY SUBSTANCE OF WHICH THE WORLD CONSISTS. HIS THEORY OF THE POSITION OF THE EARTH WAS HELD IN PHYSICAL TERMS. THALES SPOKE ABOUT THE SOUL AND GODS WITHOUT MAKING REFERENCE TO SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES AND TREATED THESE CONCEPTS TO INDICATE MATERIAL FORCES CONTAINED WITHIN THE THINGS. HIS RATIONALITY AND HIS TENDENCY TOWARD GENERALIZATION BECOMES ALSO APPARENT IN HIS ATTAINMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO HIM IN THE FIELD OF GEOMETRY AND ASTRONOMY. THEN THERE IS NO DOUBT THATTHALES'S THOUGHT INAUGURATED A NEW HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH OF THE WORLD AND PAVED THE WAY TO THE GREAT PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Ioannina

Year dc:date

1986

Author dc:creator

• Τέζας, Χρίστος

• ΓΕΝΕΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑΣ
• Η ΔΟΞΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΗ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΗ
• ΗΑΡΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗΣ
• Ιστορία της φιλοσοφίας
• ΟΡΘΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ
• Προσωκρατική φιλοσοφία
• ΤΟ "ΥΔΩΡ" ΩΣ "ΑΡΧΗ" ΤΩΝ ΟΝΤΩΝ
• RATIONAL EXPLANATION OF THE WORLD
• THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE
• THE DOXOGRAPHY
• THE ORIGIN OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY
• THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY
• Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες και Τέχνες
• Ιστορία και Αρχαιολογία
• Humanities and the Arts
• History and Archaeology

Language dc:language

gre

Identifier

10.12681/eadd/0195

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:10442/0195