Ideas from 'fragments/reports' by Anaxagoras [460 BCE], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Early Greek Phil VI: Anaxagoras etc' by Anaxagoras (ed/tr Laks,A/Most,G) [Harvard Loeb 2016,978-0-674-99707-3]].
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals
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Things get smaller without end
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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481
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Nothing is created or destroyed; there is only mixing and separation
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Anaxagoras's concept of supreme Mind has a simple First and a multiple One [Plotinus]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / a. Fundamental reality
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Basic is the potentially perceptible, then comes the contrary qualities, and finally the 'elements'
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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Snow is not white, and doesn't even appear white, because it is made of black water [Cicero]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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The senses are too feeble to determine the truth
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism
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We reveal unreliability in the senses when we cannot discriminate a slow change of colour [Sext.Empiricus]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / a. Mind
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Nous is unlimited, self-ruling and pure; it is the finest thing, with great discernment and strength
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / c. Features of mind
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Mind is self-ruling, pure, ordering and ubiquitous [Plato]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Anaxagoras says mind remains pure, and so is not affected by what it changes [Aristotle]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation
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Anaxagoras said a person would choose to be born to contemplate the ordered heavens
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
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For Anaxagoras the Good Mind has no opposite, and causes all movement, for a higher reason [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter
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Mind creates the world from a mixture of pure substances
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
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Anaxagoras said that the number of principles was infinite [Aristotle]
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The ultimate constituents of reality are the homoeomeries [Vlastos]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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Anaxagoreans regard the homoeomeries as elements, which compose earth, air, fire and water [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Anaxagoras says mind produces order and causes everything [Plato]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 1. Biology
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Germs contain microscopic organs, which become visible as they grow
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God
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Anaxagoras was the first to say that the universe is directed by an intelligence [Cicero]
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When things were unified, Mind set them in order
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
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Past, present and future, and the movements of the heavens, were arranged by Mind
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
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Anaxagoras was the first recorded atheist [Watson]
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Anaxagoras was charged with impiety for calling the sun a lump of stone [Plutarch]
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