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Anaximander - A Re-assessment (Hardcover)
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Anaximander - A Re-assessment (Hardcover)
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Anaximander, the sixth century BCE philosopher of Miletus, is often
credited as being the instigator of both science and philosophy.
The first recorded philosopher to posit the idea of the boundless
cosmos, he was also the first to attempt to explain the origins of
the world and humankind in rational terms. Anaximander's philosophy
encompasses theories of justice, cosmogony, geometry, cosmology,
zoology and meteorology. "Anaximander: A Re-assessment" draws
together these wide-ranging threads into a single, coherent picture
of the man, his worldview and his legacy to the history of thought.
Arguing that Anaximander's statements are both apodeictic and based
on observation of the world around him, Andrew Gregory examines how
Anaximander's theories can all be construed in such a way that they
are consistent with and supportive of each other. This includes the
tenet that the philosophical elements of Anaximander's thought (his
account of the" apeiron," the extant fragment) can be harmonised to
support his views on the natural world. The work further explores
how these theories relate to early Greek thought and in particular
conceptions of theogony and meterology in Hesiod and Homer.
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