PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Materialism, Arche, Ekam
16 Sep 2018
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Anaximander (611-547 bce) : first philosopher [ever!!!] The arche is the aperion, the unbounded, unlimited, or indeterminate. The absolute beginning of all things that have a beginning. What reasoning deems necessary really has to exist. The universe is reason through and through, a logical cosmos that ultimately makes good sense. 14: mortal deem that the gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes like theirs, and voice and form. 16: the ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair. 23: one god, the greatest among the gods and men, neither in form like unto mortals nor in thought. 24: he sees all over, thinks all over, and hears all over. 25: without toil he moves all things by the thought of his mind. 26: and he abides ever in the selfsame place, moving not at all; not does it befit him to go about now hither now thither.
