Augustine, De Civitate Dei VIII, 2, tr. G.S. Kirk. Kirk, G.S et al. (1983). The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambridge University Press. p. 150.
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He [Anaximander] left Anaximenes as his disciple and successor, who attributed all the causes of things to infinite air, and did not deny that there were gods, or pass over them in silence; yet he believed not that air was made by them, but that they arose from air.
— Augustine
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About Anaximenes of Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585 – c. 528 BC) was a Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Miletus in Caria. He was reportedly a pupil of Anaximander, who himself followed the teachings of Thales in the Monist school of thought. Anaximenes is known for proposing air as the element from which all substances emanate (the material principle), for asserting that the universe is in constant motion, and for theorizing that the forms of matter change based on their rarity or density.
About Anaximenes of Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585 – c. 528 BC) was a Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Miletus in Caria. He was reportedly a pupil of Anaximander, who himself followed the teachings of Thales in the Monist school of thought. Anaximenes is known for proposing air as the element from which all substances emanate (the material principle), for asserting that the universe is in constant motion, and for theorizing that the forms of matter change based on their rarity or density.
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