CLA230H1 Midterm: Test 2 Revision sheet.docx

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Miletus 6th century enlightenment travel to learn from other cultures. Not about how things worked but why took the gods out of the equation. Oligarchs had limited power because they did not claim divine power/origin. Little survives of their writing: we are left with who aristotle mentioned: all three wanted to explain where the world came from, they were natural philosophers. Anaximander: world hung in nothingness, primary source is the infinite. No boundries but had 4 forces fighting: hot, cold, wet, dry. He offered the first mechanical theory of the earth, and space relations were extremely important to him. Anaximenes: refined anaximander"s thought: the infinite was actually air, and the human was a rare type of purified air. Other thinkers include pythagoras from the island of samos. He pushed the thinking in three new direction: mathematics, mysticism and politics. He fled the city in which he was born.

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