Anaximander.
Title: Anaximander.
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 809 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Anaximander.
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 809 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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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.