Anaximander
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Science, Technology, Inventions, Geography
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Scientists, Inventors, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Anaximander realized that no ordinary physical element could be the source of the world’s diversity; instead, he saw that the fundamental stuff must be an eternal, unlimited reservoir of qualities and change.
Early Life
Anaximander was a fellow citizen and student of Thales, the Milesian usually credited with having inaugurated Western philosophy. Thales, some forty years older than his protégé, put none of his philosophical thought in writing and maintained no formal pedagogical associations with pupils. Yet Thales’ cosmological...
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