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DIOGENES APOLLONIATES (c. 46o B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 282 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DIOGENES APOLLONIATES (c. 46o B.C.) , Greek natural philosopher, was a native of
Apollonia
  in
Crete
 . Although of Dorian stock, he wrote in the Ionic dialect, like all the physiologi (
physical
  philosophers). 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. The views of
Diogenes
  are transferred in the Clouds (264 ff.) of Aristophanes to Socrates. 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. 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. 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 most important
work
  was Hepcudews (De natura), of which considerable fragments are extant (chiefly in Simplicius); it is possible that he wrote also Against the Sophists and On the Nature of Man, to which the well-known fragment about the
veins would belong; possibly these discussions were subdivisions .of his
great
 
work
 .
Fragments in F. Mullach, Fragmenta philosophorum Graecorum, i. (1860); F. Panzerbieter,
Diogenes
  Apolloniates (1830), with philosophical dissertation; J. Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (1892) ; H. Ritter and L.
Preller
 , Historia philosophiae (4th ed., 1869), 59-68; E. Krause, Diogenes von
Apollonia
  (1909). See ,IONIAN SCHOOL.


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