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Anaximander of Miletus

(ca. 610–545, prime ca. 560 B.C.)

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While it is not impossible to doubt whether Thales can justly be called a philosopher, this is not so with Anaximander. That he is the first genuine philosopher of the Hellenes cannot be doubted.

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© 1965 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Cleve, F.M. (1965). Anaximander of Miletus. In: The Giants of Pre-Sophistic Greek Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3458-1_4

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