Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (500-428 BCE) (13 ene 500 año aC – 13 ene 428 año aC)

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Anaxagoras
Presocratic philosopher who taught Pericles and Euripides at Athens, leaving fragments of his philosophical work. Despite his rejection of a fundamental distinction between appearance and reality and adoption of an atomistic natural philosophy, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to draw a substantial distinction between inert and chaotic matter on the one hand and mind as an active principle and source of order on the other hand. This view had a significant influence on the philosophy of Plato.

Recommended Reading: Malcolm Schofield, An Essay on Anaxagoras (Cambridge, 1980).

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