No conflict between religious beliefs and a more rational outlook in the world no conflict at the time but it started very early subsequently because already a century later we know that the kind of thinking of the mergers from Milletus started creating conflicts. We have good traces of this conflicts in Athens a hundred years later when an exegoras who was a physicist the follower of the Milletus school was exiled because of disrespect of the gods. There is a famous example which is Socrates Socrates was condemned to death for disrespect for the gods for teaching a new way of inquiry according to the people in Athens was not taking the gods into account.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal is joined by writer, science populariser and theoretical, Carlo Rovelli.
He joins us to talk about the new English translation of his first book, Anaximander.
They all also discuss the singular genius of the philosophers of the past, the importance of questioning our reality, the significance of a typewriter in his writing career, and his admiration for the theoretical physicist John Wheeler.
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