Anaximander : (610-547 BC) Greek thinker.
... on our answer to them depends our conception of God, of existence, of the world and of human life and destiny. Page 221 Heraclitus, differing in this, as Mr. Ranade reminds us, from Anaximander who like our Mayavadins denied true reality to the Many and from Empedocles who thought the All to be alternately one and many, believed unity and multiplicity to be both of them real and coexistent ...
... Alfred Weber's History of Philosophy, 1 there is no mention of any of the Indian philosophies. To the Western writer philosophy means only European philosophy—they begin with the Greek Thales and Anaximander, as if human thinking began with them. That is the old style European mind. It used to be the same in Art and other matters. Now Chinese and Japanese art is recognised and to a less degree the ...
... philosophy saw Page 230 existence as eternally one in the Being, God, eternally many by His nature or conscious-energy in the souls whom He becomes or who exist in her. In Greece also Anaximander denied the multiple reality of the Becoming. Empedocles affirmed that the All is eternally one and many; all is one which becomes many and then again goes back to oneness. But Heraclitus will not ...
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