PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Xenophanes, Cosmogony, Anaximander
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*theorists rarely get enough credit---- proof follows conjecture (educated guesses) Nature philosophy: natural causes-- laws internal to natural phenomena. Mythology: super-natural causes-- laws external to natural phenomena. Water exists in all three states of matter. He also believes all thing are filled with gods: water is divine (his god) in its immortality. The creation of the earth is a result of cosmogony. This abstract concept argues with thales because he thales is forgetting about earth, air, and fire: each element serves an injustice but the reparation is through the opposite. If there is a long, hot, dry summer, it will result in a long, cold, wet, snowy, winter. He believes that homer"s gods are immoral and unworthy of our worship, and they are anthropomorphisms and culturally relative. Xenophanes believes god is one, transcendent being. The father of epistemology : epistemology: truth/knowledge does not occur through revelation" truth/knowledge is a result of the process of seeking".
