Anaximander
When you come to school, you always sit on the same place. There is not a teacher behind you carrying you to your place. You do it, because there is already an order. You already know where you have to sit, you know you can’t be over someone else. As you enter the classroom you move directly to one place, right? Like once in a while you change, but without disturbing the other ones.
This is the same with the universe according to Anaximander. He thought that the world didn’t need to be supported by anything to be. He thought that the universe had its own balanced positions.
Anaximander also thought that we all came from a substance, he believed that we came from something so complex and so simple at the same time. He thought that we came from something infinite and/or boundless. The infinite for him it’s something endless like a cycle.
An example would be life. First you are born, you live your life. You get older, you become wiser. After all that you have kids, then grandsons. As your age rises your body gets weaker and weaker. At the end you die. It’s a cycle, because another kid has been born, when you are dying someone else is giving birth. It is boundless, no limits.
Bibliography:
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/anaximan.htm#Intro
chizo:
ResponderEliminarwhat i liked the most was your picture... very curious and creative lol.
i think that anaximander was a very inteligent guy, but especially that he was a very obervative man. or howelse would he noticed that almost everything follows a natural order without needing something that is behind them carrying them.
julio Diaz
Isis!:
ResponderEliminarI like the way you explain Anaximander. I like your examples , they are so funny that i will remember them! jaja
Well getting serious, I really think what Anaximander believed is very credible, he give credible answers ( maybe no the truth)to question that we wonder to know the right answer. It is interesting the part when he say that things have an order, and it is very frustating for me because sometimes i ask , why things are this way and no another.
nice picture =)!
by: Mia ANdrea
Isis:
ResponderEliminarIt is true that there is an order in the universe and I like your example, because it goes directly to the point and explains the main idea. Definitely your picture gives me an idea about what I'm going to read and it complements your post. Anaximander's theory about the original substance is interesting, because at the end it's true that we are all composed of something, in my case I believe the substance is energy.
great!!
Abril Castillo
I really hadn´t understand Anaximander´s theory until I read your post. It is very interesting how your example has to do with our daily life. Once again I´m amazed by how philosophers were able of obtaining all this information just by reasoning, he was able of imagining a suspended planet without extra information. Hats off to him, and also to you.
ResponderEliminarGabriela Maldonado
Isis!
ResponderEliminarI think that this can be considered a theory on how the world was created. Maybe de world and everything in it had a balance and it just came to be, without a big bang and without a God. I love your picture and your examples helped me understand everything. Thanks for your words of wisdom!
-Kenya
I like your post Isis! Good example, we kind of like to follow an order. Chaos will be the result if we didnt.
ResponderEliminarI liked that you created your own picture. 100