Anaximander in Five Minutes - The Pre-Socratic Philosophers

according to the philosopher fee of practice Anaximander of Miletus what's the student s daily like most students the maxim and ER agreed with his teacher on some point but disagreed on others recall that Bailey's was interested in the physical world and said that everything was fundamentally made of water Anaximander had his own ideas but only a single fragment of his writing to survive nevertheless ancient figures wrote about him a lot he was so influential it's impossible to cover everything he said in this video but here is a free point summary with the most important ones

save for last first Anaximander changed the way the people looked at the world forever he argued that celestial bodies move around the earth in full circles that seems really obvious to us but it wasn't so obvious in an accidental time the Sun Goes Down and the moon comes up every day but we don't really see where they go from our limited perspectives they just disappear and reappear later on nevertheless Anaximander asserted quite emphatically that things Lewton circles around the earth and therefore passed underneath it this is a really significant thought because it leads to another

idea that the earth isn't resting on anything there's nothing underneath it holding it up if it were otherwise planets and the Sun and the moon couldn't circle around us the NOx samandar also taught that heavenly bodies were spaced out at different distances this is another idea that wasn't so obvious in the ancient world we know from Homer that before Anaximander people tended to think that the sky was a fixed to surface above the earth and maybe he noticed that planets sometimes pass in front of stars or even in front of each other so he tried

to work out the order of the planets and didn't quite get it right nevertheless he did recognize such a thing as orbits this basically means that Anaximander invented the idea of space itself secondly Anaximander had a very strange idea about human beings recall that bailey's taught that everything is fundamentally made of water Anaximander took this idea and used it to explain the origin of people the Roman writer sent Sarina's summarizes the few Anaximander considered that from warmed up water and earth emerged either fish or entirely fish like animals inside these animals men took form and

embryos were held prisoners until puberty only then after these animals burst open could men and women come out now able to feed themselves if this eye sounds familiar you are not the only one who thinks so arguably Anaximander developed a proto evolutionary idea of human anthropology around 500 BC like his teachers Daly's Anaximander clearly thought that water could explain how some things come to be but that brings us to the third and most important point recalls that Daly's wanted to find the are key or unifying principle of diversity and thought that water was the answer

even though Anaximander agreed that water could explain some things he was not fully satisfied with his teachers idea of the arti here's what bothered in water like all normal elements contains properties that oppose the properties and other elements for instance water is wet and cold fire is dry and hot and earth isn't like either of them it's hard and fixed how can all these contradictory things come from the same thing later thinkers like Aristotle had different ways of putting Anaximander 'zv you but we can summarize it like this whatever explains all the different things can't

also be one of those things this might seem like a challenge to the whole idea of anarchie if you think about it how can opposite things even be explained by a single thing but Anaximander had an answer to that he called it a parent a word that is sometimes translated as the boundless or the infinite unlike bailey's Archy the appium is a kind of unidentified substance which precedes absolutely everything it explains air earth fire and water because in a way it's all of those things at once the opposites are contained within it and as it

moves it separates out into simple substances and substances aren't the only things that come from the Oparin according to simplicious the earth and heavens themselves come from it as well this makes Anaximander a pretty different thinker from staleys bailey seems to have been interested in explaining how normal things work and he was trying to find the are key inside of them but since Anaximander didn't even think that was possible he went outside of ordinary experience and proposed something fundamentally strange and unobservable to explain it this is a very significant stepped in philosophy all of the

pre-socratics were very interested in what we call the physical world but by stepping outside the physical Anaximander arguably became the first meta physicists metaphysics is the speculative study of that which exists beyond physical reality because the operator on is a kind of infinity later thinkers like Zeno and an active board would give it a kind of implicit mathematical nature but it has also been seen as a precursor and ancient ideas about God the unmoved means of all things some stinkers didn't like how debate and difficulty a baron was to define and the next two measures

phone students challenged limine court nevertheless Anaximander remained untouched stone for the way that ancient philosophy combined the pursuit of science with the pursuit of ultimate reality to hear about the rest of the pre-socratic and for more videos on famous philosophers like the cities' subscribe and leave a comment below thanks for watch valleys didn't think the arctic ocean physics and Angela but just as soon as the safety material that could be clutched in please of all elements valleys identical