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The Founders of Western Thought - The Presocratics - A diachronic parallelism between Presocratic Thought and Philosophy and the Natural Sciences (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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The Founders of Western Thought - The Presocratics - A diachronic parallelism between Presocratic Thought and Philosophy and the Natural Sciences (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 257
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There can be little doubt that the Greek tradition of philosophical
criticism had its main source in Ionia. . . It thus leads the
tradition which created the rational or scienti?c attitude, and
with it our Western civilization, the only civilization, which is
based upon science (though, of course, not upon science alone).
Karl Popper, Back to the Presocratics Harvard University physicist
and historian of Science, Gerald Holton, coined the term "Ionian
Enchantment", an expression that links the idea back in the 6th c-
tury B. C. to the ancient Ionians along the eastern Aegean coast,
while capturing its fascination. Approximately within a seventy- ve
year period (600-525 B. C. ) -a split second in the history of
humanity- the three Milesian thinkers, Thales, Anaximander and
Anaximenes, without plain evidence, but with an unequalled power of
critical abstraction and intuition, had achieved a true
intellectual re- lution; they founded and bequeathed to future
generations a new, unprecedented way of theorizing the world; it
could be summarized in four statements: beneath the apparent
disorder and multiplicity of the cosmos, there exists order, unity
and stability; unity derives from the fundamental primary
substratum from which the cosmos originated; this, and,
consequently, the cosmic reality, is one, and is based not on
supernatural, but on physical causes; they are such that man can -
vestigate them rationally. These four statements are neither
self-evident nor se- explanatory.
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