For Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes, all citizens of Miletus, a Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, doubt was a birthright.

Nietzsche found Anaximander troubling. In Basel in the 1870s, struggling to balance his duties as a lecturer in classics with his philosophical writing, Nietzsche described Anaximander as a ‘true ...

Rovelli argues that Anaximander’s insight represents the seminal moment in the history of human thinking not for what it proposed, not even because it was correct, but because of what it ...

Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each country shows there is a north-south divide ...

Anaximander: And the Birth of Science Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead, $18 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-54236-1 ...

WHENEVER I am asked about Filipino philosophy, I immediately ask what the term 'Filipino philosophy' could possibly refer to. Philosophers are not even in complete agreement as to what philosophy ...

Thales thought that the fundamental principle was water; Anaximenes said air. Anaximander thought everything arose from a mysterious material called the apeiron, which means something like the ...

His name was Thales. His pupil, Anaximander, disagreed — he believed the underlying substance of the universe was “indefinite stuff.” His own student, Anaximenes, thought it was air. These ideas seem ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...