The fragments of Anaxagoras (Fairbanks)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Only fragments survive
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~9,050 words · 43 passages
Cite this work
- APAAnaxagoras. (n.d.). The fragments of Anaxagoras (Fairbanks). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/anaxagoras/the-fragments-of-anaxagoras-fairbanks
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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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time composition and separation, that is, genesis and destruction.
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