送交者: cornbug 于 2005-1-25, 23:26:48:
回答: TITAN 由 cornbug 于 2005-1-25, 22:54:08:
公元前古希□有记载的第一位哲学家是Thales (585 B.C.E.)。他的哲理是“世间万物皆来自水”。但其推理没被流传下来。
其弟子(Anaximander, 611-647 B.C.E.) 则认为“万物源于水”过于简单。他注意到宇宙间的变迁，他提出这其中应至少包括有热，冷，干，湿的互动。他进一步推论: 热，冷，干，湿是来自于一团取之不尽的混乱流动物质.经过慢长的蒸发生华，万物 - 地球，空气，火，水，乃至生命便得以演生。
Thales's student Anaximander, however, found this answer far too simple.Proper attention to the changing face of the universe, he supposed, requires us to consider the cyclical interaction of things of at least four sorts: the hot, the cold, the dry, and the wet. Anaximander held that all of these elements originally arise from a primal, turbulent mass, the Boundless or Infinite. It is only by a gradual process of distillation that everything else emerges─earth, air, fire, water, of course─and even living things evolve.
http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/t.htm#thal