Anaximander: A Re-Assessment by Andrew Gregory

Anaximander: A Re-Assessment by Andrew Gregory

Author:Andrew Gregory [Gregory, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: philosophy, History & Surveys, Ancient & Classical, Metaphysics
ISBN: 9781472508928
Google: LlQ0CwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-02-25T23:53:58.578262+00:00


Fourthly there are those around Empedocles, who make the heavenly vortex the reason for the earth’s stability, and fifthly there are those who say that its uniformity and equipoise are the reason, as with Anaximander and Plato.

That would certainly seem to exclude Anaximander from employing a vortex to keep the earth stationary. As Anaximander is here associated with Plato, it would be odd for Anaximander to have any physical reason for the earth’s immobility. To quote Plato, Phaedo, 108e–109a7 here:



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