ACS 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pope Innocent Ii, Averroes, On The Trinity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 200
• Professor: Boris Hennig

Document Summary

Student of thales (who had the hypothesis that water was the original substance on earth). Earliest known greek treatise on the nature of things , earliest actual fragment. Law and justice in nature and principle of symmetry which explains why the earth does not fall down. Law and justice - the things that are perish into the things from which they came to be. According to necessity, for they pay penalty and retribution to each other for their injustice in accordance with the ordering of time" as [anaximander] says in rather poetic language. He believes that every action has a counter-action. With day comes night, with summer comes winter. The earth - some, like anaximander declare that the earth stays at rest because of equality. For it is no more fitting for what is situated at the centre and is equally far from the extremes to move up rather than down or sideways.