Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Anaximander

    Uploaded by

    Nam Uel
    5 views3 pages
    Anaximander was a pupil of Thales who first described the original principle of the universe as boundless and used the term "arche" for beginning. Anaximenes, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, believed air was the underlying component of everything and that density and temperature changes cause air to contract or expand, forming the earth. Empedocles asserted the four elements were earth, air, fire, and water and believed two guiding forces, Love and Strife, and transmigration of the soul, advocating vegetarianism.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    Man

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    Anaximander was a pupil of Thales who first described the original principle of the universe as boundless and used the term "arche" for beginning. Anaximenes, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, believed air was the underlying component of everything and that density and temperature changes cause air to contract or expand, forming the earth. Empedocles asserted the four elements were earth, air, fire, and water and believed two guiding forces, Love and Strife, and transmigration of the soul, advocating vegetarianism.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    5 views3 pages

    Anaximander

    Uploaded by

    Nam Uel
    Anaximander was a pupil of Thales who first described the original principle of the universe as boundless and used the term "arche" for beginning. Anaximenes, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, believed air was the underlying component of everything and that density and temperature changes cause air to contract or expand, forming the earth. Empedocles asserted the four elements were earth, air, fire, and water and believed two guiding forces, Love and Strife, and transmigration of the soul, advocating vegetarianism.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    of 3

    Anaximander

    Anaximander was a pupil of Thales. He was the first to describe the original principle of the universe as apeiron or boundless and to use the term arche for beginning. In the Gospel of John, the first phrase contains the Greek for "beginning" -- the same word "arche".

    Anaximenes
    Anaximenes was a 6th century philosopher, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, who believed that air was the underlying component of everything. Density and heat or cold change air so that it contracts or expands. For Anaximenes, the earth was formed by such processes and is an air-made disk that floats on air above and below.

    Empedocles
    Empedocles was another very influential early Greek philosopher, the first to assert the four elements of the universe were earth, air, fire, and water. He thought there were two contending guiding forces Love and Strife. He also believed in transmigration of the soul and therefore vegetarianism.

    You might also like