Anaximander.
Date Submitted: 12/14/2002 09:07:13
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (809 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (809 words)
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… pp. 89-90.
Assessment of Anaximander:
1. A response to a (perceived) logical difficulty in Thales' theory.
2. Postulation of a theoretical entity to explain observable phenomena.
3. The postulation of something beyond experience was not new (cf. the gods). What was new: what is postulated is not personified or anthropomorphic. It is a kind of matter.
4. Problem: how can the apeiron contain the opposites it gives rise to and still be a simple unity? Cf. Guthrie, p. 87.
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