Ted expanded my understanding of MN by at least 350 more years when he
wrote: "The first naturalists in the Western tradition were certain
Presocratic philosophers, who sought to explain all things as natural
events, rather than as the result of divine actions. For example, Thales of
Miletus (fl. ca. 585 B.C.) attributed earthquakes to tremors in the water on
which the disk of the earth floated -- a naturalistic rendering of the older
Greek view that the god of the sea, Poseidon, was responsible for causing
them. Similarly, the author of the Hippocratic treatise On the Sacred
Disease (i.e., epilepsy), written about 400 B.C., opens the work by rebuking
those who would attribute the cause of the disease to the gods:... ."
Thanks for the comments. Can you give me a citation? This is all new to me.
Burgy
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