History of philosophy
· From Anaximander we have the earliest words from a philosopher's own writing:
- Whence things have their origin,
Thence also their destruction happens,
According to necessity;
For they give to each other justice and recompense
For their injustice
In conformity with the ordinance of Time
Things have tendency to return back to its original form. Things were undifferented mass, this
mass is in motion. All things are always in motion.
All life, including men came from fish. First humans came full-grown from fish's belly.
Anaximenes
All is aer (spirit or mist) - all things come from spirit or mist.
Spirit is distilled liquor.
From cloud- air, water, earth, fire- all comes from aer.
Connection between spirit, mind and world
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Pythagoras (570-495 BC) and the Pythagoreans