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Anaximander
Greek philosopher (c. 610 – c. 546 BC)
This article is about the pre-Socratic philosopher. For other uses, see Anaximander (disambiguation).
Anaximander (an-AK-sih-MAN-dər; Ancient Greek: ἈναξίμανδροςAnaximandros; c. 610 – c. 546 BC)[3] was a pre-SocraticGreek philosopher who lived in Miletus,[4] a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. He succeeded Thales and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and, arguably, Pythagoras amongst his pupils.[5]
Little of his life and work is known today. According to available historical documents, he is the first philosopher known to have written down his studies,[6] although only one fragment of his work remains. Fragmentary testimonies found in documents after his death provide a portrait of the man.
Anaximander was an early proponent of science and tried to observe and explain different aspects of the universe, with a particular interest in its origins, claiming that nature is ruled by laws, just like human societies, and anything that disturbs the balance of nature does not last long.[7] Like many thinkers of his time, Anaximander's phi
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Presocratic Philosophy
1. Who Were the Presocratic Philosophers?
Fragmentary evidence complicates our understanding of the Presocratics. Most of them wrote at least one “book” (short pieces of prose writing, or, in some cases, poems), but no complete work survives. Instead, we depend on later philosophers, historians, and compilers of collections of ancient wisdom for disconnected quotations (fragments) and reports about their views (testimonia). In some cases, these sources were themselves able to consult the works of the Presocratics directly. In many others, the line is indirect and often depends on the work of Hippias, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Simplicius, and other ancient philosophers who did have direct access. All of the sources for the fragments and testimonia made selective use of the material available to them, in accordance with their own special, and varied, interests in the early thinkers. (For analyses of the doxographic tradition, and the influence of Aristotle and Theophrastus on later sources, see Mansfeld 1999; Runia 2008; Mansfeld and Runia 1997, 2009a, and 2009b; Laks and Most, 2016.) Despite (or perhaps because of) the fragmentary nature of the evidence, new material occasionally comes to light. In 1962 “The Derveni Papyrus,” p
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Simplicius, Physics, 24, 13.
Aristotle, Physics, iii.4-5; On description Heavens, ii.13, 295b10.
pseudo-Plutarch, Stromateis, 2.
Hyppolytus, Ref., i.6.7.
Aetius, II-III.
Censorinus, de suffer death natura, v,7.
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