Fragments and Testimonia
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Fragments and Testimonia
（Phoenix pre-Socratics, v. 6）（Phoenix supplementary volumes, v. 44）
University of Toronto Press, c2007
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes text in Greek with English translation on opposite pages with commentary in English (p. 14-29)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that Mind is the ordering principle of the cosmos, he explained solar eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of astronomical, meteorological, and biological phenomena. His metaphysical claim that everything is in everything and his rejection of the possibility of coming to be or passing away are fundamental to all his other views. Because of his philosophical doctrines, Anaxagoras was condemned for impiety and exiled from Athens. This volume presents all of the surviving fragments of Anaxagoras' writings, both the Greek texts and original facing-page English translations for each. Generously supplemented, it includes detailed annotations, as well as five essays that consider the philosophical and interpretive questions raised by Anaxagoras. Also included are new translations of the ancient testimonia concerning Anaxagoras' life and work, showing the importance of the philosopher and his ideas for his contemporaries and successors.
This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction To the Reader PART I: Fragments and Testimonia * The Fragments and their Contexts * Notes on the Fragments * Testimonia PART II: Essays * Essay 1. Anaxagoras' Life and Work * Anaxagoras' Life - Parmenides and the Response to Eleaticism - Anaxagoras and Later Greek Thought - Anaxagoras in Aristotle * Essay 2. The Original Mix and the Seeds * The Original Mix - A View between the Expansive and Austere Ontologies - Seeds * Essay 3. Everything in Everything * Essay 4. Minding Things: The Workings of Nous * Understanding Nous - What Things Have To Do With Mind - Minding Things * Essay 5: Anaxagorean Science * Making a World -Separation Here and Elsewhere -Natural Phenomena Above, On, and In the Earth - Living Things: Embryology and Perception -Science and Metaphysics -After Anaxagoras PART III: Notes on the Sources, Bibliography, Indexes * Notes on the Sources * Bibliography * Index Locorum * Index of Names and Topics
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