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Single Idea 18231
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation
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Full Idea
When Anaxagoras was asked what it was for which a person would choose to be born rather than not, he said it would be to apprehend the heavens and the order in the whole universe.
Gist of Idea
Anaxagoras said a person would choose to be born to contemplate the ordered heavens
Source
Anaxagoras (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], 1216), quoted by Aristotle - Eudemian Ethics 8 'Finality'
Book Ref
Korsgaard,Christine M.: 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends' [CUP 1996], p.232
A Reaction
[Anaxagoras, quoted by Aristotle, quoted by Korsgaard, quoted by me, and then quoted by you, perhaps]
Related Idea
Idea 18239
What is contemplated must have a higher value than contemplation [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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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