Anaximander - Arche, Apeiron and Analysis/Critique of Thales' cosmogony and cosmology
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Anaximander - Arche, Apeiron and Analysis/Critique of Thales' cosmogony and cosmology
Anaximander states that the arche, the source of everything, should be the apeiron, the unlimited, the indefinite. After explaining how he comes to that conclusion, evaluate the significance of Anaximander’s contribution to philosophical activity in terms of his analysis and critique of Thales’ cosmogony and cosmology.
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No problem, ertan.ertan wrote
Hi everyone, can you help me with this question?
Anaximander states that the arche, the source of everything, should be the apeiron, the unlimited, the indefinite. After explaining how he comes to that conclusion, evaluate the significance of Anaximander’s contribution to philosophical activity in terms of his analysis and critique of Thales’ cosmogony and cosmology.
First it has to be understood that the arche is most accessible part of a broader system of eclectically grounded grammar. It is at the center of this that an important but nuanced ambiguity takes center stage: Never, and this is crucial, must the apeironic arche be conflated with the more limited dialogs of Parmenides. This later is exactly why the "unlimitedness" (an awkward transliteration, I admit) that lies within the essence of Thales' epistemological foundation has to be offset from the arche altogether, notwithstanding the disputatious theses put forth by Michaels (1984) and Periquin (2000). You will find, and this may be an interpretatively, dialectically STRONG claim that your prof will take issue with (Just look it up. No space here for a comprehensive propaedeutic) Anaximander's key claim lies here: It is cosmogony, and NOT the Cosmo centric liturgical barometrical pan arche form that brings Thales' conclusion to an untenable terminus. NOT AT ALL! Critical point here, for the scholarly consensus is rather definitive in that fracking causes nose bleeds and silly people like you actually read and do their own thinking, not because the Thalean protosphere is awash with phethoantical blotsnatches! No: the reality is far more insidious, more heinous, more wretched that previously thought by Sindar the Great. Oh Lordy ertan, or shall I call thee Lord Meglatrax!!! Think I didn't know who you were all along?! Did you honestly believe your Biogandic defenses could prevent my Omini octo pan Ocluean (TM) Responder to see what you were doing? I invented the Biogandic algorithmic Observatron that makes Thales' hedonic calculous an Omnate wonder of the world!!! Why I should crush your diminutive cranium into pulvanerous scrum!
It's ok to copy this word for word on your assignment. I won't mind.
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Re: Anaximander - Arche, Apeiron and Analysis/Critique of Thales' cosmogony and cosmology
Yes. You need to achieve some understanding of the source material, so that you can describe it in your own words, thus demonstrating to your teacher that you have understood what they have been trying to teach you. Good luck!
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