Anaximander (Anaximandros) (ca 610 - ca 546 BC), Greek (jan 1, 610 BC – jan 1, 546 BC)
Description:
From Miletus in Ionia
Key ideas:
- Material monism (substance materialism).
- Apeiron (the indefinite) is the arche. It is the original stuff, the fundamental cause or first principle that explains everything.
- The apeiron generates the opposites hot and cold which in turn generates the rest of the cosmos.
- If Anaximander really was a material monist, then he thought that apeiron persists through change.
Key works:
- None of his writings remains.
Misc:
- Student of Thales
- Teacher of Anaximenes
Links:
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics/
- https://www.iep.utm.edu/presocra/
Added to timeline:
Western history
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