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EPISODE · Apr 12, 2026 · 26 MIN

Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Pythagoras - From the Breath of Life to the Music of the Spheres.

from The Living In Faith Everyday Podcast · host Jeremy R McCandless

Send us Fan MailEpisode Notes: Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Pythagoras - From the Breath of Life to the Music of the Spheres.In our last episode, we spent time with Thales, the man who looked at the world and said, “Let’s think about this properly.”  In today’s episode, we meet the three more thinkers who followed in his wake, three men who took his spark of curiosity and fanned it into something far larger, stranger, and maybe more ambitious.If Thales dipped his toe into the waters of philosophy, Anaximander dove straight into the deep end. He wasn’t satisfied with water as the source of everything. No, he wanted something bigger, something more mysterious, something he called the apeiron, a term meaning something more “boundless, the limitless.” Then comes Anaximenes, the philosopher of breath, of spirit, of the invisible substance that he believed filled the world and animates life. And finally, today we will also meet Pythagoras, the man whose name still haunts schoolchildren everywhere. But behind the triangle theorem is a thinker of astonishing depth. A mystic, a mathematician, a community‑builder, and a man who believed that the universe itself is structured like music. So today, we’re stepping into a world where philosophy begins to stretch its wings—where thinkers start asking not just what the world is made of, but how it holds together, why it is ordered, and what that order might mean for human life.From the limitless… to the breath of life… to the music of the spheres… Support the showFollow and support me on Patreon.Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | PatreonTo receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at:Jeremy McCandless | SubstackCheck out my other Podcasts.The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.comHistory of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.comThe L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment).https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.comThe Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891The Classic Literature Podcast:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit:Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

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