(Originally Written August 30, 2006 in History I)
Classics of Philosophy, Louis Pojman
Anaximenes
1. Anaximenes believed air to be the source of all other substances. Air produced the gods and all other things came from these divine beings. Air is in perpetual motion and this causes all of the changes in the air to produce the substances we all see. Dispersed air becomes fire, condensed air becomes wind, condensed wind becomes water, condensed water because earth and condensed earth becomes rock. Temperature causes the condensing and dispersing of air. All other heavenly bodies are the same. Like Anaximander, he believes all natural weather is caused by other manifestations of the first substance, in his case, air. - Hippolytus on Anaximenes
2. Hot or cold are not substances, but properties of substances in Anaximenes. - Plutarch on Anaximenes
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