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    Anaximenes of Miletus was an Ionian philosopher born around 586 BC who believed that air is the arche, or fundamental substance, of all things in the universe. He differed from his predecessors Thales and Anaximander by proposing that air, rather than water or an unspecified boundless stuff, is the source of all things and that the universe is in constant motion. Anaximenes also equated air with the divine, believing air to be both infinite and eternal and the true divine source from which even the Greek pantheon of gods derived.

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    Anaximenes of Miletus was an Ionian philosopher born around 586 BC who believed that air is the arche, or fundamental substance, of all things in the universe. He differed from his predecessors Thales and Anaximander by proposing that air, rather than water or an unspecified boundless stuff, is the source of all things and that the universe is in constant motion. Anaximenes also equated air with the divine, believing air to be both infinite and eternal and the true divine source from which even the Greek pantheon of gods derived.

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    Anaximenes of Miletus was an Ionian philosopher born around 586 BC who believed that air is the arche, or fundamental substance, of all things in the universe. He differed from his predecessors Thales and Anaximander by proposing that air, rather than water or an unspecified boundless stuff, is the source of all things and that the universe is in constant motion. Anaximenes also equated air with the divine, believing air to be both infinite and eternal and the true divine source from which even the Greek pantheon of gods derived.

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    INTRODUCTION TO THE
    PHILOSOPHY OF THE
    HUMAN
    Anaximenes of Miletus

    Born c. 586 BC Miletus (modern-day Balat, Didim,


    Aydın, Turkey)
    Died c. 526 BC (aged c. 60)

    School Ionian / Milesian


    Main interests Metaphysics
    Notable ideas Air is the arche
    The Universe is in constant motion
    Anaximenes is best known for his doctrine that air is
    the source of all things. In this way, he differed with
    his predecessors like Thales, who held that water is the
    source of all things, and Anaximander, who thought that
    all things came from an unspecified boundless stuff.

    Anaximenes also equated the first material


    principle with the divine, so that effectively "air
    is God", both being infinite and eternal. Thus,
    the pantheon of Greek gods were merely
    derivations of the truly divine, air.

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