Plato and Anaximenes

In Timaeus 49, Plato sympathetically describes Anaximenes’ theory of matter, with its seven states of matter, its contrary mechanisms of rarefaction and condensation, and notion that the birth of one elements is the death of another. Plato treats Anaximenes as a kind of philosopher of process rather...

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Main Author: Daniel W. Graham
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Société d’Études Platoniciennes 2016-02-01
Series:Études Platoniciennes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/etudesplatoniciennes/706