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2 days ago · Anaxagoras (c. 500–c. 428 bce), the great pre-Socratic natural scientist, posited a long list of fundamental stuffs, holding that what are ordinarily understood as individuals are actually composites made up of shares or portions of these stuffs.
Jun 14, 2024 · In ancient Greece, philosophers like Thales of Miletus and Anaxagoras proposed that all things are imbued with a form of life or soul. Thales believed that even magnets and other objects had souls because they could move and influence other objects, while Anaxagoras suggested that everything contains a portion of mind.
Jun 17, 2024 · This has been suggested for Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, who impressed Socrates by identifying mind as the governing power of the universe. Another 5th-century Ionian who found his way to Athens was Hippodamus of Miletus, an eccentric political theorist, who made his own clothes and was famous for a theory of town planning.
1 day ago · He enjoyed the company of the philosophers Protagoras, Zeno of Elea, and Anaxagoras. Anaxagoras, in particular, became a close friend and influenced him greatly.
4 days ago · Among them were the philosopher Anaxagoras, the architect Hippodamus of Miletus, who reconstructed Peiraeus, as well as the historians Herodotus (484–425), Thucydides (460–400), and Xenophon (430–354).
Jun 28, 2024 · The arrival of the Sophist philosophers in Athens occurred during his middle life, and he seems to have taken full advantage of the society of Zeno and particularly Anaxagoras, from whom he is said to have learned impassivity in the face of trouble and insult and skepticism about alleged divine phenomena.
Jun 14, 2024 · Instead, it occurred in two different and parallel ways: 1) elimination of mythological elements from philosophical discourses (Anaximander, Anaximenes, Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, Aristotle); and 2) implementation of mythological elements in philosophical works (Pythagoras, Parmenides, Empedocles, Plato).
