(Originally written July 2, 2006 in Book 2)
The History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
1974
Chapter 8 - Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was an Ionian, scientific and a rationalist. He introduced philosophy to Athens.
He was born in Clazomenae around 500 BC. and lived in Athens from 462 - 432 BC. He was forced to leave Athens for teaching theories that were natural and offensive to the gods.
He believed that everything was infinitely divisible and everything contained some portion of every element.
Mind was the only thing pure. Mind had power over all things. Mind was the source of all things.
Man's superiority over animals, which had equal minds, was there having hands.
He seems to have been an atheist.
He was a great scientist in the Ionian tradition, knowing that the moon reflected light, had mountains, that the stars were hot, but we couldn't feel the heat because of the distance.
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