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Anaximander of Miletus, c. 611 BCE to c. 547 BCE. Along with Thales and Anaximenes, he is one of the three great Milesian Presocratic thinkers. Judging from surviving fragments, he taught that all earthly variation comes from self-transformations of the Unbounded.
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Lecture notes by S. Marc Cohen. Focuses on the relation of Anaximander's thought to that of Thales.
From Arthur Fairbanks' 1898 The First Philosophers of Greece. Provides his own translations of all passages in ancient literature by or about Anaximander.
Detailed article on this Milesian, by Dirk L. Couprie.
From Arthur Fairbanks' 1898 The First Philosophers of Greece. Provides his own translations of all passages in ancient literature by or about Anaximander.
Detailed article on this Milesian, by Dirk L. Couprie.
Lecture notes by S. Marc Cohen. Focuses on the relation of Anaximander's thought to that of Thales.

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