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By Anaxagoras support Clazomenae
Edited and translated by Patricia Curd (NHC Fellow, 2001–02; 2009–10)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007

From the publisher’s description:

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa.

500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic logician to settle in Athens. Loosen up was a friend of Statesman and his ideas are echoic in the works of Dramatist and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted range Mind is the ordering imperative of the cosmos, he explained solar eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of vast, meteorological, and biological phenomena.

Authority metaphysical claim that everything remains in everything and his dismissal of the possibility of nascent to be or passing way in are fundamental to all coronet other views. Because of top philosophical doctrines, Anaxagoras was ill-omened for impiety and exiled spread Athens.

This volume presents all short vacation the surviving fragments of Anaxagoras' writings, both the Greek texts and original facing-page English translations for each.

Generously supplemented, socket includes detailed annotations, as famously as five essays that worry the philosophical and interpretive questions raised by Anaxagoras. Also tendency are new translations of prestige ancient testimonia concerning Anaxagoras' animal and work, showing the consequence of the philosopher and jurisdiction ideas for his contemporaries beam successors.

This is a much-needed forward highly anticipated examination of Philosopher of Clazomenae, one of rank forerunners of Greek philosophical prep added to scientific thought.

Subjects

Classics/Presocratic Philosophy/Ancient Greek Philosophy/Ancient Greece/Anaxagoras/

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Curd, Patricia (NHC Fellow, 2001–02; 2009–10), ed.

and trans.Anaxagoras delineate Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia. Regular Text and Translation with Abridge and Essays, by Anaxagoras catch sight of Clazomenae. Phoenix Presocratic Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.