Thales of Miletus and the Maxim Philosophers Forgot             

Thales of Miletus, for his work in the 6th century BCE, is today widely regarded as the first philosopher in the ‘Western’ tradition. History records him as a pioneering thinker and perhaps the most revered of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece. Oddly, however, and much to their cost, Thales is almost entirely ignored by later philosophers, and today it is almost as if he never existed. .