![]() The air as the origin of all things is necessarily an eternal, imperishable substance, but as soul it is also necessarily endowed with consciousness." In fact, he belonged to the old Ionian school, whose doctrines he modified by the theories of his contemporary Anaxagoras, although he avoided his dualism. His chief advance upon the doctrines of Anaximenes is that he asserted air, the primal force, to be possessed of intelligence- "the air which stirred within him not only prompted, but instructed. Like Anaximenes, he believed air to be the one source of all being, and all other substances to be derived from it by condensation and rarefaction. The views of Diogenes are transferred in the Clouds (264 ff.) of Aristophanes to Socrates. There seems no doubt that he lived some time at Athens, where it is said that he became so unpopular (probably owing to his supposed atheistical opinions) that his life was in danger. Although of Dorian stock, he wrote in the Ionic dialect, like all the physiologi (physical philosophers). 460 B.C.), Greek natural philosopher, was a native of Apollonia in Crete. They often fall on the ground and are extinguished, like the stone star that came down on fire at Aegospotami.DIOGENES APOLLONIATES ( c. With the visible stars revolve stones which are invisible, and for that reason nameless. It is notable chiefly because "here we can read at first hand what in the case of the other Presocratics we learn only indirectly: an attempt to describe in scientific detail the structure and organization of the physical world."ĭiogenite meteorites are named for Diogenes of Apollonia, who was the first to suggest an outer space origin for meteorites: It contains a description of the distribution of the blood vessels in the human body. The longest surviving fragment of Diogenes is that which is inserted by Aristotle in the third book of his History of Animals. Among his other doctrines, he is said to have believed that there was an infinite number of worlds, and infinite void that air, densified and rarified, produced the different worlds that nothing was produced from nothing, or was reduced to nothing that the Earth was round, supported in the middle, and had received its shape from the whirling round of the warm vapours, and its concretion and hardening from cold. The nature of the universe is air, limitless and eternal, from which, as it condenses and rarefies and changes its properties, the other forms come into being. ![]() And there is not a single thing which does not share in it. For it is this which seems to me to be god and to have reached everything and to arrange everything and to be in everything. This he modified by the theories of his contemporary Anaxagoras, and asserted that air, the primal force, was intelligent:Īnd it seems to me that that which possessed thought is what people call air, and that by this everyone both is governed and has power over everything. Diogenes, like Anaximenes, believed air to be the one source of all being, and all other substances to be derived from it by condensation and rarefaction. His most famous work was On Nature (Peri Physeos), some fragments of which are preserved, chiefly by Simplicius. In The Clouds of Aristophanes, the views of Diogenes are transferred to Socrates. Like all the physiologi (physical philosophers), he wrote in the Ionic dialect. Diogenes Laertius states that "great jealousy nearly put his life in danger in Athens," but there may be confusion with Anaxagoras who is mentioned in the same passage. ![]() Nothing is known of the events in his life, except that he lived some time in Athens. Aristotle has preserved a lengthy passage concerning the organization of the blood vessels.ĭiogenes was a native of the Milesian colony Apollonia in Thrace, present-day Sozopol on the Black Sea. All other substances are derived from it by condensation and rarefaction. He believed air to be the one source of all being, and, as a primal force, it was intelligent. ![]() His doctrines are known chiefly from Diogenes Laertius and Simplicius. 425 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, and was a native of the Milesian colony Apollonia in Thrace. ![]()
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