CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Xenophanes, Anaximander
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Miletus is a place where different cultures could meet and create the base of philosophy. The first question philosophers asked was about the origin of the world. Thales from miletus c. 580 bce: he believed that water is the source of all things, he believed that earthquakes happened when water was moved by wind, this belief was also present in eastern cultures and egypt. Anaximander from miletus c. 610-546 bce: he thought that boundless was at the origin of everything. Everything was in a boundless environment: map of anaximander"s universe: at the centre there was the earth, then the ring of the stars, the ring of the moon, and the ring of the sun. Anaximenes from miletus died c. 528 bce: he believed air is the source of all things. Parmenides from elea c. 480 bce: he believed that change was impossible, everything that happened could not be altered, it is what it is .