PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- With Anaximander, we get the first criticism of one philosopher by another.
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There are some (i.e. Anaximander) who make this [principle] the Unbounded, and not air or water; in order that the other things may not be destroyed by their unboundedness. They are in opposition to one another--air is cold, water is moist, and fire hot--and therefore, if any one of them were unbounded, the rest would have ceased to be by this time. Accordingly, they say that what is infinite is something other than the elements, and from it the elements arise. [Aristotle, Physics 204b 24]