Anaxagoras

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1. Anaxagoras - Noun

2. Anaxagoras - Proper noun

Meaning

a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)

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Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place." Diogenes Laërtius

Anaxagoras wrote a book of philosophy, but only fragments of the first part of this have survived, through preservation in work of Simplicius of Cilicia in the 6th century AD. Source: Internet

His proverbial calmness and self-control are also often regarded as products of Anaxagoras' influence. Source: Internet

Anaxagoras brought philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from Ionia to Athens. Source: Internet

This thesis originated in the Hellenic world, stated in two different ways by Anaxagoras and by Leucippus. Source: Internet

In classical Greece, Anaxagoras asserted that a divine reason (mind) gave order to the seeds of the universe, and Plato extended the Greek belief of ideal forms to his metaphysical theory of forms (ideai, "ideas"). Source: Internet

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