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Anaximander

Anaximander was a pupil of Thales who first described the original principle of the universe as boundless and used the term "arche" for beginning. Anaximenes, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, believed air was the underlying component of everything and that density and temperature changes cause air to contract or expand, forming the earth. Empedocles asserted the four elements were earth, air, fire, and water and believed two guiding forces, Love and Strife, and transmigration of the soul, advocating vegetarianism.

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Anaximander

Anaximander was a pupil of Thales who first described the original principle of the universe as boundless and used the term "arche" for beginning. Anaximenes, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, believed air was the underlying component of everything and that density and temperature changes cause air to contract or expand, forming the earth. Empedocles asserted the four elements were earth, air, fire, and water and believed two guiding forces, Love and Strife, and transmigration of the soul, advocating vegetarianism.

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Anaximander

Anaximander was a pupil of Thales. He was the first to describe the original principle of the universe as apeiron or boundless and to use the term arche for beginning. In the Gospel of John, the first phrase contains the Greek for "beginning" -- the same word "arche".

Anaximenes
Anaximenes was a 6th century philosopher, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, who believed that air was the underlying component of everything. Density and heat or cold change air so that it contracts or expands. For Anaximenes, the earth was formed by such processes and is an air-made disk that floats on air above and below.

Empedocles
Empedocles was another very influential early Greek philosopher, the first to assert the four elements of the universe were earth, air, fire, and water. He thought there were two contending guiding forces Love and Strife. He also believed in transmigration of the soul and therefore vegetarianism.

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