Not everyone, however, was happy with the idea that the universe had a beginning. For example, Aristotle, the most famous of the Greek philosophers, believed that the universe had existed for ever. Something eternal is more perfect than something created.
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Thales’ pupil Anaximander rather startlingly fast-forwards the concept of the arche, saying that it is the apeiron, ‘the unbounded’ or ‘indefinite’ or ‘infinite’. This is a remarkable leap from the idea that
By: A.C. Grayling Bacon was a statesman, lawyer, essayist and philosopher. He
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By: K. C. Cole When the universe speaks, astronomers listen. When it sings, they swoon. That’s roughly what happened recently when a group of astronomers published the most detailed analysis yet of
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By: A.C. Grayling Bacon was a statesman, lawyer, essayist and philosopher. He had a spectacular career between his admission to Cambridge University at the age of twelve and his fall from high