Core+Philosophies

Anaximenes thought that air was the source of all that exists!! He believed that at one time, everything was air. In early Greek literature, air was associated with the soul (the breath of life). He may have thought that air could control humans, for the soul was made of air. As a result, he credited air to be celestial.
 * Doctrine of Air: **

“ [Air] differs in essence in accordance with its rarity or density. When it is thinned it becomes fire, when it is condensed it becomes wind, then cloud, when still more condensed it becomes water, then earth, then stones." Everything else condenses from these.  Fire turns to air, air to wind, wind to cloud, cloud to water, water to earth and earth to stone.
 * Doctrine of Change: **

According to Anaximenes, Earth was created from air by a felting process. Anaximenes believed that the earth began as a flat disk. He also believed that fiery bodies arose from evaporations of air, which soon became heavenly bodies. The sun and the moon, according to Anaximenes, are also flat bodies, floating on streams of air. The sun does not travel under the earth, but circles it. When night falls, he believed that the sun was hidden by higher parts of the earth. Lightening and thunder? Wind breaking out of clouds. Rainbows? Rays of sun falling through clounds. Earthquakes? The earth cracking when it dries out after being moistened by the rain. He gave a correct account of hail being frozen water. According to this theory, everything comes from air.
 * Origin of the Cosmos: **