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According to Aristotelian tradition, Thales is known as the first philosopher, but in ancient Greece, he was called a wise man or sophos. Sophos and Sophia, meaning wisdom, at that time implied two aspects of thought and action so that Thales was mentioned in the list of the seven ancient sages that except Thales, the rest were politician or legislator. Anecdotes related to Thales indicate both aspects so that these anecdotes show him a man concerning action as well as thought. These two aspects of action and thought would be better known by analyzing the conception of arche in his teaching so that upon this analysis, arche as the way that means the beginning or origin of universe and the basis of his cosmology, it implies the governance and domination and his political thought depends on this conception. This article aims to clarify two aspects of thought and action in the concept of sophia by giving such analyzing so it would appear that Thales as a sophos was not only a thinker, but a thinker who his thought was in conjunction with action.

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لطفی محمد حسن، 1380، دوره آثار افلاطون، جلد اول، تهران، انتشارات خوارزمی.
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