PHILOSOPHY

THALES OF MILETUS

 

Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. According to Bertrand Russell, "Western philosophy begins with Thales." Thales attempted to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology and was tremendously influential in this respect. Almost all of the other pre-Socratic philosophers follow him in attempting to provide an explanation of ultimate substance, change, and the existence of the world - without reference to mythology. Those philosophers were also influential, and eventually Thales' rejection of mythological explanations became an essential idea for the scientific revolution. He was also the first to define general principles and set forth hypotheses, and as a result has been dubbed the "Father of Science".

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PHILOSOPHY

The constant research for best efficiency as well as eficacy have always lead to different approaches towards “evolution”. During the beginning of the 20th century one name stood out in the crowd for his vision of this two terms: Frederick Winslow Taylor, the father of the Taylorism, process of reducing waste by looking for inefficient worker activity and improving workshop organization based upon scientific studies of human efficiency and incentive systems.

This culture was satirized by Charlie Chaplin in the movie Modern Times where he exacerbates one of the later known worst problems of this system, the “robotization” of the workers who would be constricted to do one only movement. Union advocates argued that the methods treated workers like machines and ignored psychological factors, and resulted in deskilling and systematic disempowering of workers. In practice the system increased the number of unskilled workers, and also the number of skilled workers and engineers, squeezing out old-time craftsmen set in their traditions.

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PHILOSOPHY

In life there are innumerous ways of teaching children how to behave and what to do, that would be called tha natural philosophy of life. In the following videos we found a extreme way of teaching that!

Happy tree friends is a more radical approach on teaching children (or not considering the violence of it) what can happen when you disobey your parents when they for instance tell you not to run around with scissors, share your food or not to have too much sugar.