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Anaximander, Greek philosopher who was the first to develop a cosmology, or systematic philosophical view of the world. He held an evolutionary view of living things, in which humans originated from some other kind of animal, and he drew a map of the known world.
Anaximander (/ æ ˌ n æ k s ɪ ˈ m æ n d ər / AN-ak-sih-MAN-dər; Greek: Ἀναξίμανδρος Anaximandros; c. 610 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales.
Anaximander (c. 610—546 B.C.E.) Anaximander was the author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy. He speculated and argued about “the Boundless” as the origin of all that is. He also worked on the fields of what we now call geography and biology.
Apr 10, 2019 · Anaximander was a Greek philosopher who had a deep interest in cosmology as well as a systematic view of the world (Encyclopedia Britannica). Although little about his life and world is known today he was one of the first philosophers to write down his studies and he was an advocate of science and trying to understand the structure and ...
- Amanda Briney
Sep 2, 2009 · Anaximander of Miletus (l. c. 610 - c. 546 BCE) was one of the early Pre-Socratic Philosophers who lay the foundation for the deveopment of Western Philosophy. He was a student of Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE), recognized as the first philosopher of ancient Greece.
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Dec 10, 2021 · Anaximander was the first in Western philosophical thought to explicitly highlight and extend this idea to the cosmological order. The flow and constant change of things coming into being and ceasing to exist is evident, and this was clear to the majority of ancient Greek philosophers.
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