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Anaxagoras (500–428 BC)
Biogrpahy
Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Clazomenae, a town near Ionia. However he spent most of his life in Athens. Later in his life he was put on a trial for impiety. He then managed to escaped prison and left Athens. He spent his last years in retirement at Lampsacus.
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Anaxagoras believed that there is nothing like four elements, but instead he believed that there is something called "seeds" which composed everything on this world.
"The “hidden” seeds, however, are present, and explain how objects can change their characteristics as the mixture changes and different kinds of seeds that were only latent before become predominant". (Chapter 2 “The Beginnings of Western Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics” p 30)
Interesting facts
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He held that the Sun was not a god, but just material.
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World Explanation
In a response to Parmenides' claims about the impossibility of change, Anaxagoras described the world as a mixture of primary everlasting ingredients, where material variation was caused by relative high proportion of a particular ingredient over the other ingredients, rather than by its absolute presence; in his words, "each one is... most manifestly those things of which there are the most in it." He created the concept of Nous (Cosmic Mind) as a force of order that separated and moved out of the initial homogenous (or nearly homogenous) mixture.
MLA Citations
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Buckingham, Will, et al. The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained. DK, 2015.
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