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Anaximenes's apparent instructor, Anaximander, was a Milesian philosopher who proposed that apeiron, an undefined and boundless infinity, is the origin of all things. [1] Anaximenes and Anaximander were two of the three Milesian philosophers, along with Thales. These were all philosophers from Miletus who were the first of the Ionian School. [7]
Anaximander (/ æ ˌ n æ k s ɪ ˈ m æ n d ər / an-AK-sih-MAN-dər; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξίμανδρος Anaximandros; c. 610 – c. 546 BC) [3] was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, [4] a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey).
The first three philosophers (Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes) were all centred in the mercantile city [4] of Miletus on the Maeander River and are collectively referred to as the Milesian school. [5] [6] They sought to explain nature by finding its fundamental element called the arche. They seemed to think although matter could change from ...
He was a younger contemporary and friend of Anaximander, and the two worked together on various intellectual projects. He also wrote a book on nature in prose. Anaximenes took for his principle aēr (air), conceiving it as being modified, via thickening and thinning, into the other classical elements: fire, wind, clouds, water, and earth. While ...
In the 6th century BC, Miletus was the site of origin of the Greek philosophical (and scientific) tradition, when Thales, followed by Anaximander and Anaximenes (known collectively, to modern scholars, as the Milesian school), began to speculate about the material constitution of the world, and to propose speculative naturalistic (as opposed to ...
There was, according to Anaximander, a continual war of opposites. Anaximenes of Miletus, a student and successor of Anaximander, replaced this infinite, boundless arche with air, a known element with neutral properties. According to Anaximenes, there was not so much a war of opposites, as a continuum of change.
Anaximenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξιμένης) may refer to: Anaximenes of Lampsacus (4th century BC), Greek rhetorician and historian Anaximenes of Miletus (6th century BC), Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
Anaximander: Apeiron (meaning 'the undefined infinite'). Reality is some, one thing, but we cannot know what. Anaximenes of Miletus: Air; Heraclitus: Change, symbolized by fire (in that everything is in constant flux). Parmenides: Being or Reality is an unmoving perfect sphere, unchanging, undivided. [27]