Anaxagoras
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Science
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Scientists, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: By devising a philosophical system to explain the origins and nature of the physical universe that overcame the paradoxes and inconsistencies of earlier systems, Anaxagoras provided an indispensable bridge between the pre-Socratic philosophers of the archaic period of Greek history and the full flowering of philosophy during the Golden Age of Greece.
Early Life
Virtually nothing is known of Anaxagoras’s parents, his childhood, his adolescence, or his education. Born into a wealthy family in an Ionian Greek city around 500 b.c.e., he...
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