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Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, c. 500 BCE - c. 428 BCE. Ancient Greek speculative philosopher who is believed to have presented a mechanistic view of the world.

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• - Article discussing the astronomical ideas of this ancient thinker, with links to articles on related thinkers.
  
• - Two different sets of notes from a lecture at the University of Toronto. Explores the relation of this thinker to the thought of his time and ours.
  
• - Paper on the Anaxagorean idea of there being something of everything in everything by Gareth B. Matthews.
  
• - Section from Arthur Fairbanks' The First Philosophers of Greece, containing Fairbanks' commentary and translation of the fragments of Anaxagoras.
  
• - Section on this ancient thinker from the Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, as translated by C.D. Yonge.
  
• - Article on the Greek philosopher responsible for giving philosophy a home at Athens and the first philosopher to introduce a spiritual principle which gives matter life and form.
  
• - A short overview of the life, legacy and ideas of this ancient Greek thinker.
  
  

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