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ARCHELAUS OF MILETUS

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ARCHELAUS

ARCHELAUS OF See also:
MILETUS (mod. Palatia)
MILETUS , See also:

Greek philosopher of the 5th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C., was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born probably at See also:

Athens, though See also:

DIOGENES

Diogenes Laertius (ii. 16) says at Miletus. He was a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Anaxagoras, and is said by See also:

ION

Ion of See also:

CHIOS

Chios (ap. Diog. Laert. ii. 23) to have been the teacher of See also:

SOCRATES

Socrates. Some argue that this is probably only an See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to connect Socrates with the Ionian school; others (e.g. See also:

GOMPERZ, THEODOR (1832– )

Gomperz, Greek Thinkers) uphold the See also:

story. There is similar difference of See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion as regards the statement that Archelaus formulated certain ethical doctrines. In See also:

general, he followed Anaxagoras, but in his cosmology he went back to the earlier See also:

IONIANS

Ionians. He postulated See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

MATTER

Matter, identical with See also:

air and mingled with Mind, thus avoiding the See also:

DUALISM (from rare Lat. dualis, containing two, from duo)

dualism of Anaxagoras. Out of this conscious " air," by a See also:

PROCESS

process of thickening and thinning, arose See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold and warmth, or See also:

WATER

water and See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire, the one passive, the other active.

The See also:

earth and the heavenly bodies are formed See also:

ARCHERY

ARCHERY from mud, the product of fire and water, from which springs also See also:

man, at first in his See also:

LOWER

lower forms. Man differs from animals by the See also:

possession of the moral and See also:

ARTISTIC

artistic See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty. No fragments of Archelaus remain; his doctrines have to be extracted from Diogenes Laertius, See also:

SIMPLICIUS

Simplicius, See also:

Plutarch and See also:

Hippolytus. See IONIAN SCHOOL; for his ethical theories see T. Gomperz, Greek Thinkers (Eng. trans., 1901), vol. i. p. 402.

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