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| Anaximander (611 B.C.E - 547 B.C.E) |
ANAXIMANDER
(611 B.C.E - 547 B.C.E)
About
- Disciple or associate of Thales.
- Contributed to Cosmology.
- Developed a theory of evolution.
Doctrine and Ideas
- The World-Stuff/Arche is an Indefinite something. It is like spray or mist.
- This Indefinite living mass is called 'Boundless'.
- World originated from this substance (The Boundless) that underlay the four elements.
- Warmer particles and colder particles get separated and condensed. This warmer particles become the Sun and Heavy bodies, and the colder particles become earth.
- Living things arose from elemental water acted upon by the Sun, then the higher animals from the lower.
Achievements and Contributions
- Introduced a basic Cosmology that lasted for two thousand years, until the Copernican revolution : The earth is the center of the universe, and the sun, moon and stars being arranged in circles around it.
- According to the theory of evolution he developed, human beings are evolving from fish.
