Anaximander: Pioneer Western Philosophy

Podcast: Learn with Leshley · Lyon Leshley

Opublikowano: 2025-12-20

Welcome! In today’s episode we dive into the mind of Anaximander, one of the earliest Greek thinkers and a key figure of the Milesian school. Living around 610–546 BC, Anaximander went beyond his teacher Thales’ idea that water is the fundamental substance and introduced the concept of the ‘apeiron’—an indefinite, boundless source from which all things emerge and return. He imagined the world as a dynamic balance of opposites—hot and cold, wet and dry—originating from this limitless principle. Anaximander also pioneered early scientific thought, proposing the first known map of the known world, suggesting that Earth floats unsupported...