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Milesian school
Thales
Biography
"Founder of philosophy"
Theories about the natural world, tales that he could predict the weather
First principle
Came up with: viewing all of reality as composed of water; arche - beginning; first cause = the principle of everything, what the world is made of
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Anaximen
arché
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The archē is indeed infinite, but it must not be
completely indeterminate.
Metaphysical explanation
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four elements
basic stuff was air, and that air could become any of the other ele-
ments through processes of condensation and rarefaction.
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Anaximander
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biography
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Known for early philosophical, cosmological, and scientific insights.
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Metaphysical explanation
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Indescribable Ground:
The apeiron is beyond description, transcending human language and perception.
Earth position
Argued that the earth is suspended in space, staying in place because it is equidistant from all points of the cosmos.
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Economical prosperity led to a "leisured class who had time" to deal with culture and intellectual thought
Miletus was a trading center and had access to different cultural ideas from other places (Egyptian influence)
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