Concept
Air (classical element)
Overview
classical element in philosophy and cosmology
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We should at least _sleep_ on the verandah or in the open air. Those who cannot do this should at least keep the doors and windows of the room fully open at all times. The air is our food for all the twenty-four hours of the day. Why, then, should we be afraid of it? It is a most foolish idea that we catch cold by inhaling the cool breeze of the morning.
Mahatma Gandhi, A Guide to Health
The chapter “AIR” is titled for Air; names Air several times.
HERMOGENES: That is true. SOCRATES: Any violent interpretations of the words should be avoided; for something to say about them may easily be found. And thus I get rid of pur and udor. Aer (air), Hermogenes, may be explained as the element which raises (airei) things from the earth, or as ever flowing (aei rei), or because the flux of the air is wind, and the poets call the winds “air-blasts,” (aetai); he who uses…
Plato, Cratylus
Names Air several times; states what Air is.
There are also many other animals and men upon it, some dwelling in mid-earth, others about the air, as we do about the sea, and others in islands which the air flows round, and which are near the continent; and, in one word, what water and the sea are to us, for our necessities, the air is to them; and what air is to us, that ether is to them. 138.
Plato, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
Names Air several times; states what Air is.
Philosophers who discussed Air (classical element)
Related ideas
- Aristophanes
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Paracelsus
- The Clouds
- Jainism
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Aether (classical element)
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Diogenes of Apollonia
- Chinese Buddhism
- Plato
- Socrates
- Reincarnation
- I Ching
- Aristotle
- University of Chicago
- Buddhism
- Wicca
- Zeus
- Celestial spheres
- Human brain
- Timaeus (dialogue)
- Alchemy
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anaximander.