CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Monism, Anaximander, Reductionism
17 Sep 2016
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Clst 214 lecture 3 sept 15 th. We collect the quotes into fragments of person (e. g. : thales) Don"t have complete texts from all of them, instead have quotes from other people (like aristotle) Would be easier if there was a book by him. Quoted by people who have their own intelligent agendas. They all come from the area around samos. People start talking about the way the world is made up, which they never did before. They would talk about it in front of audiences. The first humans, says anaxagoras, came fully formed out of a bursting fish. Animals are born being able to take care of themselves, but humans were not. Think he was saying the sun was a foot wide. The white of the egg, says anaxagoras, is birds" milk. Maybe the white is what helps the yolk turn into a chick. Element = what you can reduce things down to.
