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The Wisdom of Anaxagoras: Nous, Nature, and the Order of All Things

The Wisdom of Anaxagoras: Nous, Nature, and the Order of All Things

Mundi Press, Sapientia

Paperback

PhilosophyAncient Greece

ISBN13: 9798198547902
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 25 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before Socrates, before Plato, before Aristotle, one philosopher dared to declare that mind - not the gods - ordered the cosmos.

The Wisdom of Anaxagoras: Nous, Nature, and the Order of All Things recovers the thought of the first philosopher to bring natural philosophy to Athens, a thinker whose radical ideas about matter, mind, and the heavens would shape the course of Western intellectual history. Born in the Ionian city of Clazomenae, Anaxagoras spent thirty years in Athens, where he proposed that the cosmos arose from an infinite mixture of substances set in motion by a pure, self-governing intelligence he called nous. His claim that the sun was a mass of incandescent stone and that the moon reflected borrowed light earned him a trial for impiety and exile from the city he had helped transform into a center of philosophical inquiry.

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