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Thales of Miletus (624-546 BCE)
21. The idea that everything in the universe can be ultimately reduced to a single substance (monism)
22. Politician and businessman (success because of the reliance on science to predict the weather, hence harvesting)
23. Founder of Milesian school (taught Anaximander -> Anaximen -> Pythagoras)
24. 400 BCE - Leucippus and Democritus - the cosmos is made up solely of atoms and empty space

Pythagoras (569-495 BCE)
25. The square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides (in right-angled triangles). Triangles with 3-4-5 ratios always have a right angle
26. Number is the ruler of forms and ideas. The whole cosmos must be governed by mathematical rules
27. Established the principle of deductive reasoning (building from self-evident axioms toward a new conclusion)
28. Reason is immortal, all else mortal

Laozi (Daoism) - (5XX-4XX BCE)
29. Confucius consulted Laozi (the Old Master) on rituals and ceremonies
30. Dao (the way) - is the source of all existence and the root of all things, seen and unseen.
31. It is achieved through: 1. acting thoughtfully, not impulsively; 2. acting in harmony with nature (respecting the ecological balance of the lake and not over-fishing); 3. living in peace, simplicity, and tranquility; 4. a solitary life of meditation and reflection
32. Change (dao) is cyclical, continually moving from one state to another (from day to night, summer to winter…). Different states are not opposite, but one arising from another, possessing complementary properties, making up a whole

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1. 624-546 BCE - Thales of Miletus (modern-day Turkey)- the first known Greek philosopher - seeks rational answers to questions about the world we live in (like “What is the world made of?” - also a foundation of scientific thought)
2. 569 BCE - the birth of Pythagoras - the Greek thinker who combined philosophy and mathematics (describing the structure of philosophy in numbers and geometry)
3. 551 BCE - Birth of Confucius (the father of Confucianism - Chinese ethical system, a system of thought and behavior, tradition, philosophy,  (humanistic or rationalistic) religion, theory of government, or way of life. Together with Daosism, it dominated Chinese philosophy until the 20th century.
4. 500 BCE - Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), founder of the religion and philosophy of Buddhism, teaches in Northern India - spread over most of southern Asia
5. 469 BCE - Birth of Socrates (one of the fathers of Western philosophy). Extending Greek thought from ontology to epistemology (how do we know what we know) and ethics (how should we live our lives)
6. 385 BCE - Plato founds his hugely influential Academy in Athens
7. 335 BCE - Aristotle, Plato’s student, opens his own school in Athens - the Lyceum
8. 332-265 BCE - Zeno of Citium formulates his stoic philosophy, which goes on to find favor in the Roman Empire. Other schools (cynics, skeptics, epicureans) waned but were preserved mainly in the manuscripts and translations of the Arab world
9. 100-178 CE - Ptolemy, a Roman citizen of Egypt, proposes the idea that Earth is the center of the Universe and does not move
10. 150 CE - Galen of Pergamum (present-day Turkey) produced extraordinary medical research that remained unsurpassed until the work of Vesalius in 1543

Format: Book
Author: Will Buckingham
Title: The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Year: 2017

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1. Philosophy is what everyone does when they’re not busy dealing with their everyday business and get a chance to reason what life and the universe are all about
2. We, human beings are naturally inquisitive creatures, and can’t help reasoning about the world around us and our place in it
3. We’re equipped with a powerful intellectual capability, which allows us to reason
4. Whenever we reason, we’re thinking philosophically
5. Philosophy is about the process of trying to find the answers to the fundamental questions, using reasoning rather than accepting without question conventional views or traditional authority
6. The very first philosophers, in ancient Greece and China, were thinkers who were not satisfied with the established explanations provided by religion and custom, and sought answers which had rational justifications
7. Superstition sets the whole world in flames, philosophy quenches them - Voltaire
8. Socrates prided himself on being the wisest of men because he knew he didn’t know anything
9. Logic is a technique of reasoning
10. Words (justice, beauty, good, happy) are imprecise and need to be clarified

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1. 7 Key Technologies to Tackle Emissions (read)
2. GHG-Removal - $10trln market (read)
3. Sustainable Lifestyle: Cheaper, Safer, Healthier (read)
4. Global Sustainable Development Club (read)

Philosophy, Sustainability, Physics, Future:

1. Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
2. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
3. How to save humanity - Peter Watts
4. Justice - Michael Sandel
5. On the Meaning of Life - Moses Rubinstein
6. Come On! - Club of Rome
7. Sustainabilism - Meir Russ
8. SDG. Status 2022 - Sustainable Development Solutions Network
9. Sustainability is survivability - Daniel Brooks
10. The big picture - Sean Carroll
11. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
12. The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinov
13. Megatech: Technology in 2050 - Daniel Franklin
14. 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything - Mauro Guillen
15. The subtle art of not giving a fuck - Mark Manson
16. Republic - Plato
17. Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale - Ivan Yefremov
18. We - Evgeny Zamyatin
19. New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
20. Planetary civilization - Paul Raskin
21. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life - Adam Greenfield
22. Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World - Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
23. The Circle - Dave Eggers
24. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
25. The Future of the Mind - Michio Kaku
26. Physics of the future - Michio Kaku
27. Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku
28. How to create a mind - Ray Kurzweil

Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, Psychology:

1. The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins
2. Microbiome - CB Insights
3. Homo Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
4. Cosmosapiens - Jonh Hands
5. Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
6. Future Health - CB Insights
7. Human Behavioral Biology - Robert Sapolsky