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Anaximenes of Miletus (/ ˌ æ n æ k ˈ s ɪ m ə ˌ n iː z /; Greek: Ἀναξιμένης ὁ Μιλήσιος; c. 586/585 – c. 526/525 BC) was an Ancient Greek, Pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).
Anaximenes Of Miletus (flourished c. 545 bc) was a Greek philosopher of nature and one of three thinkers of Miletus traditionally considered to be the first philosophers in the Western world.
He is the third philosopher of the Milesian School of philosophy, so named because like Thales and Anaximander, Anaximenes was an inhabitant of Miletus, in Ionia (ancient Greece). Theophrastus notes that Anaximenes was an associate, and possibly a student, of Anaximander’s.
Sep 11, 2019 · Anaximenes of Miletus (l. c. 546 BCE) was a younger contemporary of Anaximander and generally regarded as his student. Known as the Third Philosopher of the Milesian School after Thales (l. c. 585 BCE) and Anaximander (l. c. 610 - c. 546 BCE), Anaximenes proposed air as the First Cause from which all else comes.
Anaximenes of Miletus was an Ancient Greek, Pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Anatolia. He was the last of the three philosophers of the Milesian School, after Thales and Anaximander. These three are regarded by historians as the first philosophers of the Western world.
Anaximenes (in Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (c. 585 – 528 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the third of the philosophers of Ionia (the first being Thales and the second Anaximander). He was a citizen of Miletus and a student of Anaximander.
Anaximenes, seeing no need to postulate an imperceptible form of matter, proposed instead that air is infinite. Although this idea probably arose from the fact that atmospheric air has no readily discernible boundaries, Anaximenes extended the sense of air's infinity.
Anaximenes of Miletus was probably a pupil and later a colleague of Anaximander. COSMOLOGY/ PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE [1 ] Anaximenes accepted the idea of a primary 'stuff' as unlimited ( apeiron ) but not as indeterminate [a] ; he supposed it to be air ( aer ) [a] .
Quick Reference. ( fl. c .546 bc) The junior member of the Miletian school, and probably a pupil of Anaximander. His astronomy was relatively unsophisticated, but he is remembered for the doctrine that one primary substance, aer, produces all others either by being rarefied into fire or condensed into wind, cloud, water, earth, and stone.
Anaximenes of Miletus Source: The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Author(s): E. L. HusseyE. L. Hussey. fl.c.550 bc).The third of the troika of Milesian ‘natural philosophers’ (Pre-Socratic philosophy). He proposed a cosmological theory in which the whole of the universe consisted of air in different degrees of density—the first attested ...
