Philosophy - Anaxagoras
World Explanation
Understanding of the arche - which element/s the philosopher is the world’s fundament
Interesting Facts
Biography
Education - introducing the concept of Nous (cosmic mind)
Personal Life and Connections
Aristotel was very amazed with Anaxagoras
Work Life
He was tried for impiety because he said that the Sun is an incandescent stone that is about the size of the Peloponnese.
Anaxagoras was the first known atheist
Anaxagoras agree that changing something in which more basic unchanging realities are being combined and separated.
Life: 500 - 428 BC
Clazomenae, Ionia, birthplace
most of the time in Athens
put on trial for impiety by Pericles' enemies
escaped from prison later on
changing of objects perspective and characteristics
He believed everything was created from seeds. Even though the seeds that predominate give items their observable characteristics, objects are never made up of just one type of seed; rather, they are always a combination that includes the entire variety of seeds.
He disagrees with Empedocles, (those about the nature of the underlying, unchanging reality and about the principles that govern the processes of mixing and dissolving).
Fields of study: cosmology, eclipse and nous
Anaxagoras and Pericles --> Anaxagoras was possibly put into to jail and then bailed out because of Pericles