The Milesians

For this meeting we will be reading slections from Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes found in Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle, 4th Edition.

A free pdf of this selection is availalbe online. The book can also be purchased on Amazon.

Please come to the meeting ready to contribute to the discussion: read the selection ahead of time and come to the meeting with notes on some of your ideas/thoughts/reflections and a copy of the text.

"Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes were all from the city of Miletus in Ionia (now the western coast of Turkey) and make up what is referred to as the Milesian “school” of philosophy. Tradition reports that Thales was the teacher of Anaximander, who in turn taught Anaximenes. Aristotle begins his account of the history of philosophy as the search for causes and principles (in Metaphysics I) with these three."