The transition from mythos to logos is best described as a shift from…
In Metaphysics A.3 Aristotle names Thales the first philosopher because Thales was the first to…
Thales proposed that the archē is water. Which consideration, reported by Aristotle, did NOT support this?
Anaximander argues the archē must be the apeiron (the boundless) rather than water because…
Anaximander's surviving fragment — that things pay one another 'penalty and recompense for their injustice according to the ordering of time' — expresses the idea that…
According to Anaximander's naturalistic zoogony, human beings originally…
The decisive advance in Anaximenes' theory of air is that he…
Taken together, the lasting achievement of the three Milesians is best described as…