Anaxagoras
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#Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras · c. 500–428 BCE
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Who this is
“He brought philosophy to Athens, put Mind at the head of the universe for the first time, correctly explained eclipses — and was put on trial for saying the sun is a blazing stone.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Nothing truly begins or ends — the world is an eternal stock of ingredients being mixed and unmixed, and the mixing was set in motion by Nous: Mind.”
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