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Single Idea 21822
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Full Idea
Anaxagoras, in his assertion of a Mind pure and unmixed, affirms a simplex First and a sundered One, though writing long ago he failed in precision.
Gist of Idea
Anaxagoras's concept of supreme Mind has a simple First and a multiple One
Source
report of Anaxagoras (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE]) by Plotinus - The Enneads 5.1.09
Book Ref
Plotinus: 'The Enneads', ed/tr. Mackenna,Stephen [Penguin 1991], p.357
A Reaction
The crunch question is whether the supreme One or Mind is part of Being, or is above and beyond Being. Plotinus claims that Anaxagoras was on his side (with Plato, against Parmenides).
Related Idea
Idea 21821
Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
The
23 ideas
from Anaxagoras
21822
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Anaxagoras's concept of supreme Mind has a simple First and a multiple One
[Anaxagoras, by Plotinus]
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17995
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Basic is the potentially perceptible, then comes the contrary qualities, and finally the 'elements'
[Anaxagoras]
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20802
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Snow is not white, and doesn't even appear white, because it is made of black water
[Anaxagoras, by Cicero]
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22761
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We reveal unreliability in the senses when we cannot discriminate a slow change of colour
[Anaxagoras, by Sext.Empiricus]
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631
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For Anaxagoras the Good Mind has no opposite, and causes all movement, for a higher reason
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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13784
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Mind is self-ruling, pure, ordering and ubiquitous
[Anaxagoras, by Plato]
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2629
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Anaxagoras was the first to say that the universe is directed by an intelligence
[Anaxagoras, by Cicero]
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5118
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Anaxagoras says mind remains pure, and so is not affected by what it changes
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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22727
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Mind creates the world from a mixture of pure substances
[Anaxagoras, by ]
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550
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Anaxagoras said that the number of principles was infinite
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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21383
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The ultimate constituents of reality are the homoeomeries
[Anaxagoras, by Vlastos]
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13208
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Anaxagoreans regard the homoeomeries as elements, which compose earth, air, fire and water
[Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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367
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Anaxagoras says mind produces order and causes everything
[Anaxagoras, by Plato]
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22726
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When things were unified, Mind set them in order
[Anaxagoras]
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5956
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Anaxagoras was charged with impiety for calling the sun a lump of stone
[Anaxagoras, by Plutarch]
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7488
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Anaxagoras was the first recorded atheist
[Anaxagoras, by Watson]
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18231
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Anaxagoras said a person would choose to be born to contemplate the ordered heavens
[Anaxagoras]
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21382
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Things get smaller without end
[Anaxagoras]
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21381
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Germs contain microscopic organs, which become visible as they grow
[Anaxagoras]
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13256
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Nous is unlimited, self-ruling and pure; it is the finest thing, with great discernment and strength
[Anaxagoras]
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480
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Past, present and future, and the movements of the heavens, were arranged by Mind
[Anaxagoras]
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481
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Nothing is created or destroyed; there is only mixing and separation
[Anaxagoras]
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13257
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The senses are too feeble to determine the truth
[Anaxagoras]
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