Value and the dynamics of being *. The Review of Metaphysics (9/1/2007)
...to see how Intelligence orders the world and arranges each thing in the way best for it. (1) Presocratics like Thales and Anaximenes thought they had caught sight of an underlying unity and ultimate causal ground in the matter of things. Their quest survives...
Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought. (Summaries And Comments).(Review) The Review of Metaphysics (12/1/2000)
...instance, Anaximander recognizes the need for generality in good explanation and anticipates the Principle of Sufficient Reason; Anaximenes uses concrete explanatory analogies; Xenophanes rejects polytheistic causality in favor of that of one Deity; Heraclitus demarcates...
Introductory readings in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.(Brief Article)(Book Review) Reference & Research Book News (5/1/2007)
...from roughly 600 BCE to 600 CE includes passages from the early Greeks, starts with Milesian monists (Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes) and proceeds briskly through iconoclasts, eleatic monists, pluralists and sophists. Representative works of Plato are particularly...
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World Environmental History (10/1/1998)
...and hence co-create it. The vowel sounds, made by breath passing through the larynx, animate a text-literally. For breath is air, and air is soul in the ancient way of thinking that survived in the earliest Greek philosophy (that of Anaximenes, f
Ancient & modern The Spectator (8/26/2006)
...single basic stuff lay at the heart of all matter. From the 6th century BC , Thales seems to have suggested it was water; Anaximenes air; Anaximander 'the infinite' (the equivalent of 'something unlike anything we know, but don't ask me exactly what'). Anaxagoras...
A fascinating introduction to science.(Daily Break) The Virginian Pilot (6/5/2005)
...three thinkers Hakim calls the A team (the other two being Anaximenes and Anaxagoras). And science isn't always straight uphill. In other words, scientists sometimes goof , as when Anaximenes described the Earth as a flat disk. But Hakim also writes...
The Presocratics after Heidegger. (Summaries And Comments).(Review) The Review of Metaphysics (12/1/2000)
...thoughtful festival of interpretations. What does it mean and how is it feasible to think through and with Homer, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Empedocles, that is, early Greek philosophy and culture, in the wake of, and impelled by, Heidegger...
Does history end with postmodernism? Toward an ultramodern family therapy Family Process (1/1/2001)
...Thales, all things were derived from water, Anaximander argued that man, like any other animal, was descended from fish, and Anaximenes considered air to be the basic form of matter. All these hypotheses are compatible with modern positivist thinking. In contrast...
TECHNOQUEST The Independent - London (3/4/1996)
...philosophers". The first of these natural philosophers that history records were Thales and his contemporaries, Anaximander and Anaximenes, who lived in Greece around 600BC. Whewell chose the terms "science" and "scientist" from the Latin scire "to know". So "science...
Theories of Rain.(Short Story) The Southern Review (6/22/1999)
...rise and become condensed, what are they called? A. Clouds. Anaximenes, I tell the aunts--offering this scrap much as our cat, Cassandra...brings moles to the kitchen door and lays them at my feet--Anaximenes thought air might condense first to cloud, then to water...
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