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2. The early Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) each sought an arche as the foundation for existence. Beginning with an explanation of how Thales derived his solution to the question “What is real?” detail the arche of each. This should include an examination of why each found his predecessors solution problematic.
Miletus was a city state on the coast of the Aegean sea in Ionia ( modern day Turkey) which had served as the center of the Ionian rebellian that sought freedom from the persian Empire. The first ancient Greek philosophers. Thales. Anaximander and Anaximenes,were all from Miletus, and so they are known as the Milesian school. In the ancient world, cosmology and science were primarily passive observation.Thales also had vocal religious views: he believed in one single transcendental god, without a beginning or an end, who expresses itself through other gods, The philosopher's idea of justice revolved around both the letter of the law and the spirit of the law- both justice and faieness were important to him. his idea of happiness included three major directions: a healthy body, a resourceful soul and a teachable nature. " Each found his predecessors solution problematic " because somewhere or the other everyone's perception is different from other like, it is said that Anaximander was the first in world history to present rational arguments for his beliefs, just as Thales is said to be the first to believe in natural explainations, it is rather that people naturally observe and argue, but Anaximander was the first Greek ( technically Milesian) whose arguments come down to us through various sources. on the other hand Anaximenes follow Anaximander but corrected and differed from him.