PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anaximander, Arche, Relativism
12 Jan 2017
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Elea (italy) - active in the first half of the 5th c. bc. H: flux; everything changes all the time, cannot step into the same river twice; change caused by conflict of opposites; overseen by logos. P: stasis; nothing changes in reality, only our senses convey the appearance of change; permanence; no such thing as opposites - just varying degrees i. e. cold as absence of heat, not as an independent entity. Fragment b = primary quote of a person. Fragment a = someone talking or analyzing their quote. Relativism you can never step into the same river twice aka everything always changes. Justice is strife and everything occurs from necessity there is always a state of conflict there is always a change and tension yet out of all this comes unity. You would not discover the limits of the soul . You can give a rational explanation of the soul.
