The fragments of Anaxagoras (Fairbanks)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Only fragments survive
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~9,050 words · 43 passages
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What it is about
The fragments of Anaxagoras, in Fairbanks' edition.
Context and history
Anaxagoras (c. 500–428 BC) brought philosophy to Athens and was charged with impiety for saying the sun was a red-hot stone. His contribution is Nous, the mind that orders a mixture in which 'everything is in everything'. In the Phaedo Socrates describes his disappointment that Anaxagoras made so little of it.
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philosophy ; he began to teach philosophy in the archonship of Kallias at Athens (480). The fall of a meteoric stone at Aegos Potamoi (467 or 469) influenced profoundly his views of~the heavenly bodies. Perikles brought him to Athens, and tradition says he remained there thirty years. His exile (434-432) was brought about by the enemies of Perikles, and he died at Lampsakos. He wrote but one book, according to Diogenes, and the same authority says this was written in a pleasing and lofty style. Literature :—Schaubach, Anax. Claz. Frag. Lips. 1827; W. Schorn, Anaz. Claz. et Diog. Apoll. Frag. Bonn 1829; Panzerbieter, De frag. Anaz. ord. Meining. 1886; Fr. Breier, Die Philosophie des Anax. nach Arist. Berl. 1840. Cf. Diels, Hermes xiii. 4. a 936° THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS OF GREECE FRAGMENTS OF ANAXAGORAS. 1. duod yphpata Tavta jy areipa Kal TAHOsS Kat opiKpoTnta* Kal yap TO oplKpov arrELpov HV. Kal TavT@V Opod govtTwv ovdsyv evdnrov Hv bd cpLKpOTHTOS* TavTAa yap anp te Kal aiOip Kateiyev appoTepa arreipa ZovTa: TaiTa yap péywota eveotiv év Tots ovptract Kal wAHOEL Kab peye0er. 2. cal yap arp te Kal aidijp amoxpivovtas amd Tob ToAAOD TOU TEpleyovTOS. Kal TO Ye TEpLexov aTrELPCY éoTl TO TAHOOS. 4, mplv 83 amoxpiOfvar ... TavT@Y opmod eovTwV Ode xpon evdnros Fv ovdeulas amex@Ave yap 9 oipptis TavTov xpnuadtwv Tod Te Siepod Kal Tov Enpod Kal Tov Oepuod Kal Tod ~Wuypod Kal Tod Nawmpod Kal Tod Copepod Kal ys mwodAHs éveovons Kal oTreppatov aTrEipov TAHOovs ovdzv Z0LKOT@V GAXAjAOLS. -0vb2 yap TOV AwV ovdev EouKe TO ETEpov TO ETEpM. 3. ToUTwy O& otTws éyovTwv, yp SoKety évelvar TOANG Te Kal TavToia év Tact Tots cuyapwopdvors Kab aaspuars TavT@OV YpnudTaV Kal iddas mavt
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