PHIL1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Syncretism, Greek Drachma, Pre-Socratic Philosophy
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Introduction to anaxagoras the man it took him one day to copy down his book this was a tremendous feat by an equally tremendously in uential philosopher it cost him 2 drachmas to publish. Anaxagoras was an ionic pre-socratic philosopher he was the rst of the pre-socratic philosophers. Rst that athenians would have known in their own time he heavily in uenced socrates and therefore plato his student. Primordial principle explains variety in everything, the many. Empedocles he was a syncretist this is a thinker able to take the views of other philosophers and to make sense of them he had a detailed theory of elements. Pythagoras says that a physical body is indivisible and nite. Mind mind is in everything things are intelligible mind is the principle explanation for the two contradictory propositions that anaxagoras poses in his work they are essentially both in the present.
