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    Anaximander

    historical figure · 9 works · 12 mentions · 16 anchored passages

    Anaximander, son of Praxiades

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    Vitae philosophorumImperial · Greek

    Presocratic philosopher, pupil of Thales, credited as founder of the Ionian line of succession.

    The succession passes from Thales through Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Archelaus, to Socrates, who introduced ethics or moral philosophy;
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    The one school was called Ionian, because Thales, a Milesian and therefore an Ionian, instructed Anaximander;
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    Its founder was Thales, and Anaximander was his pupil.
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    MetaphysicsClassical · Greek

    Pre-Socratic philosopher briefly grouped with other early cosmologists on the conception of matter.

    for his all things were together, and the mixture of Empedocles and Anaximander and the doctrine of Democritus would be better expressed as all things were together potentially, but not actually.
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    LucullusHellenistic · Latin

    Pre-Socratic philosopher who held the infinite as the source from which all things are begotten.

    But he did not persuade Anaximander, his fellow-citizen and companion, of this;
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    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    Early Greek philosopher who held that gods are born and are innumerable worlds.

    The opinion of Anaximander is that gods are born, rising and setting at long intervals, and that they are innumerable worlds.
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    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Milesian philosopher who hymned the Infinite as a divine principle.

    And of the other philosophers, all who, passing beyond the elements, busied themselves with something loftier and more extraordinary, some of them hymned the Infinite, as Anaximander (he was a Milesian) and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and the Athenian Archelaus.
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    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Milesian philosopher, successor to Thales.

    Anaximander, son of Praxiades, the Milesian, succeeds Thales;
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    Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

    Greek philosopher credited with holding the heavenly bodies to be divine.

    as Thales water, Heraclitus fire, Anaximenes air, Anaximander all the heavenly bodies, Strato heaven and earth, Zeno air and aether, Plato the stars (which kind of gods he calls fiery) — when, considering of the world its greatness and force and power and honour and beauty, the resource, the constancy, the law of the several elements, which conspire to the begetting, nourishing, completing, and re …
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    De PallioLate Antiquity · Latin

    Presocratic philosopher cited for a theory of a plurality of worlds.

    Let Anaximander look to it, if he thinks there are many;
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    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    A Homeric critic named as a paid interpreter of Homer.

    But you have paid a good deal of money to Stesimbrotus, Anaximander, and many other Homeric critics, so that nothing of their valuable teaching can have escaped your knowledge.
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