PHILOSOPHER

Anaximander

610 BC - 546 BC

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Anaximander ( an-AK-sih-MAN-dər; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξίμανδρος Anaximandros; c. 610 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. He succeeded Thales and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and, arguably, Pythagoras amongst his pupils. Little of his life and work is known today. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anaximander is the 46th most popular philosopher (down from 34th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 16th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Anaximander is most famous for being the first person to propose that the earth was round.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anaximander ranks 46 out of 1,267. Before him are Lucretius, Rajneesh, Michel de Montaigne, Sun Tzu, Empedocles, and Plutarch. After him are Protagoras, David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anaxagoras, John Amos Comenius, and Swami Vivekananda.

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Among people born in 610 BC, Anaximander ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 546 BC, Anaximander ranks 2. Before him is Thales of Miletus. After him is Croesus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Anaximander ranks 27 out of 1,347. Before him are Ahmed I (1590), Saint Barbara (300), Honorius (384), Bayezid I (1354), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), and Murad I (1326). After him are Orhan (1288), Anaxagoras (-500), Basil of Caesarea (329), Mehmed III (1566), Mithridates VI of Pontus (-132), and Murad IV (1612).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Anaximander ranks 4. Before him are Thales of Miletus (-623), Heraclitus (-535), and Diogenes (-404). After him are Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), Leucippus (-500), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), and Chrysippus (-281).

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