Essay On Animism And The Contributions Of Thales,

of which individual things are created with and destroyed. Although he believed apieron was real, he also believed that it was unexplainable. It would be like saying that the letter W explained the alphabet. He also believed that the formation of the world was due to the separation of opposites, and that the opposites were constantly at war. With these factors, he believed that moderation is the key to success.

Although some of his theories were proved wrong, Anaximander was the first person to brush the theory of evolution and was the father of Astronomy and cosmology. Many of Anaximander's accomplishments are still regarded today. Anaximenes was another Greek philosopher who lived around the time of Anaximander. He was Anaximander's most notable student but disagreed with Anaximander on many levels. Anaximenes disagreed with the notion of apieron, bu went back a generation of thought to Thales ideas on the substance of which life is made.

Anaximenes' ideas were much different from the ideas of Thales because Anaximenes believed that air was the ultimate substance, rather than water or apieron. Anaximenes introduced the ideas of condensation and rarefaction. To prove this theory he said that when air is rarified, it becomes fire, but when air is condensed, it would become water. Anaximenes was also credited as the first person to perform a scientific experiment. It stated that if one held his hand near his mouth and blew with tight lips, the air would be cool, however, if he blew on his hand with an open mouth, it would be warm. Through this slow evolution of thought while new generations of philosophers debated the ideas of their predecessors, philosophy

was able to advance as quickly as the human societies that incorporate philosophies.