A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
Chapter 11 Anaximenes Like the two previous thinkers Anaximenes was an inhabi- tant of Miletus. He was born about 588 B.C. and { ...
there is here an advance upon Anaximander. The latter had been vague as to how formless matter differentiates itself into the wo ...
Chapter 12 Other Ionic Thinkers We have now considered the three chief thinkers of the Ionic School. Others there were, but they ...
Chapter 13 CHAPTER III THE PYTHAGOREANS Not much is known of the life of Pythagoras. Three so- called biographies have come down ...
similar ritual, but they added to this the belief that intel- lectual pursuits, the cultivation of science and philosophy, and, ...
is green, but not all things are green. Some things have no colour at all. The same is true of tastes and smells. Some things ar ...
of the unit. This is the prime number, every other number being simply so many units. The unit then is the first in the order of ...
But this is not correct. The sun, like the earth, revolves round the central fire. We do not see the central fire because that s ...
Chapter 14 CHAPTER IV THE ELEATICS The Eleatics are so called because the seat of their school was at Elea, a town in South Ital ...
Chapter 15 Xenophanes The reputed founder of the Eleatic School was Xenophanes. It is, however, doubtful whether Xenophanes ever ...
be one. There can only be one best. Therefore, God is to be conceived as one. And this God is comparable to mor- tals neither in ...
Chapter 16 Parmenides Parmenides was born about 514 B.C. at Elea. Not much is known of his life. He was in his early youth a Pyt ...
If Being began, it must have arisen either from Being or from not-being. But for Being to arise out of Being, that is not a begi ...
said to understand much about his philosophy. The ques- tion is therefore of cardinal importance. Let us see, in the first place ...
verse, and neglect their differences, we shall find that what they all have in common is simply “being.” Being then is a general ...
Plato in interpreting him idealistically reading his own thought into Parmenides? Are not we, if we interpret him as an idealist ...
Chapter 17 Zeno The third and last important thinker of the Eleatic School is Zeno who, like Parmenides, was a man of Elea. His ...
are not units. Since they are indivisible they can have no magnitude, for that which has magnitude is divisible. The many, there ...
significance. Any quantity of space, say the space enclosed within a circle, must either be composed of ultimate indi- visible u ...
but appearances, mere phenomena. Space and time do not belong to things as they are in themselves, but rather to our way of look ...
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