Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia by Patricia Curd
By Patricia Curd
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was once reportedly the 1st Presocratic thinker to settle in Athens. He used to be a chum of Pericles and his principles are mirrored within the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that brain is the ordering precept of the cosmos, he defined sunlight eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of astronomical, meteorological, and organic phenomena. His metaphysical declare that every thing is in every thing and his rejection of the opportunity of coming to be or passing away are basic to all his different perspectives. due to his philosophical doctrines, Anaxagoras used to be condemned for impiety and exiled from Athens.
This quantity provides the entire surviving fragments of Anaxagoras' writings, either the Greek texts and unique facing-page English translations for every. Generously supplemented, it comprises specific annotations, in addition to 5 essays that think about the philosophical and interpretive questions raised by way of Anaxagoras. additionally integrated are new translations of the traditional testimonia referring to Anaxagoras' lifestyles and paintings, displaying the significance of the thinker and his rules for his contemporaries and successors.
This is a much-needed and hugely expected exam of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of many forerunners of Greek philosophical and medical thought.
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And Nous knew (egno) ¯ them all: the things that are being mixed together, the things that are being separated off, and the things 24 The Fragments and Their Contexts diakrin—mena p‡nta Ágnv now. ka“ `po”a Ámellen Ásesyai ka“ `po”a Ôn §ssa nn m} \sti, ka“ Ðsa nn \sti ka“ `po”a Ástai, 9 p‡nta diek—smhse now, ka“ t|n perixQrhsin taœthn, ³n nn perixvrei t‡ te Ästra ka“ ` ³liow ka“ = sel}nh ka“ ` ú|r ka“ ` a y|r o´ úpokrin—menoi. = d perixQrhsiw a[t| \po’hsen úpokr’nesyai. ka“ úpokr’netai úp— te to úraio t˜ pukn˜n ka“ úp˜ to cuxro t˜ yerm˜n ka“ úp˜ to zofero t˜ lampr˜n ka“ úp˜ to diero t˜ jhr—n.
The small, the large. I take these terms to be used here in their special sense of submerged in and emergent from the mixture (see note on b1). So the claim, that of the small, there is no smallest, but only a smaller, is that no matter how submerged in the mixture an ingredient is, it can become even more thoroughly blended, without thereby being utterly swamped by the other ingredients and so disappearing completely from that area of the mix. Every region of the mixture (no matter how tiny in area) contains all ingredients because there is no downward limit on how submerged an ingredient can be (there are no lower limits on the density of an ingredient in any volume of the mixture).
And [the large] is equal to the small in extent (pl¯ethos), but in relation to itself each thing is both large and small. This fragment, with its commitment to and explanation of the unlimitedly small and large is both crucial for Anaxagoras’s theories and the subject of much dispute. There are both philological and philosophical difficulties. The small, the large. I take these terms to be used here in their special sense of submerged in and emergent from the mixture (see note on b1). So the claim, that of the small, there is no smallest, but only a smaller, is that no matter how submerged in the mixture an ingredient is, it can become even more thoroughly blended, without thereby being utterly swamped by the other ingredients and so disappearing completely from that area of the mix.