History of Western Philosophy, Russel: Ch-2 The Milesian School

3/9/2016:
Ch-2- The Milesian School
- Thales native of Miletus - 585 BC.
- Miletus - commercial city of Ionia.
- landowning aristocracy to plutocracy to tyrant with the help of democracy.
- Thales brought science of geometry from Egypt to Greece
- One of the 7 wise men of Greece - saying - 'water is best'
- Story of Thales used his knowledge to make money - predicting harvest time

3/12/2016:
- Anaximander, second theologian of Miletus
- 64 year old in 546 BC.
- All things came from Primal Substance
- Idea of justice in cosmic and human
- Believed world was evolved not created
- He is scientific and original
- Anaximenes, date uncertain, but subsequent to Anaximander, fundamental substance is air. Everything evolved from air.