The Problems of Philosophy : An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy
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It was the despair of reaching any satisfactory solu- tion of this perplexing problem which led Du Bois-Reymond to utter his famous comment concerning it : " Ignoramus I Ignorabimus I " CHAPTER IV THE "WOBLD PROBLEM (" COSMOLOGY ") THE world problem, or cosmology, proved of special interest to the ancient Greek mind. The earliest philo- sophical inquiries were concerned with the possibility of discovering some primal ele- ment in the world structure to which the various conflicting and interact...ing phenomena might be reduced. The speculations which mark the beginnings of Greek philosophy were crude and fan- ciful, and yet the spirit of these early thinkers was commendable, for they were searchers after a unity underlying the world phenomena, and as such they are worthy the name of philosophers. Of these thinkers, one of the earliest was Thales, who lived about 600 B.C. He regarded water as the universal substratum, of which all things were more or less com- plex manifestations. To Anaximander, 69 60 THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY however, the universal atmosphere seemed to be the true mother of all existing things ; and, in a similar manner, Anaximenes re- garded air, or breath, as the source of all being.
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