Patrick McEvoy

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Anaximenes also had something to say about the soul. Unsurprisingly, he said that the soul is made of his favorite stuff: air, which in this case is breath (§160). This idea of the soul as breath, or in Greek pneuma—that’s where we get the word “pneumatic”—is going to have a long career in later ancient philosophy.
Classical Philosophy (A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps #1)
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