Anaxagoras Updated

          At the beginning of the world, he believes that all of these particles had existed in an even mixture, in which nothing could be distinguished. The strange combination of a mechanical and a non-mechanical was the mind that foresees and intends the production of the cosmos, including living and intelligent beings but it does not interfere with the process after having started the whirling motion. According to Anaxagoras, the portion of everything is in everything explains everything in the world. 

         In a year 500B.C at Clazomenae, he was live and taught in Athens for 30 years. Because of an impiety for everything except in the mind because it is not an individual thing to be found in everything. His statement that the sun is a hot stone and the moon made of earth he left suddenly from Athens. He was a part of pluralists who held that the cosmos is composed of several material ingredients, and not just a single one. Mind was his main philosophical interest. According to him, there is a particle of everything in He was called Anaxagoras, an early Pre-Socratic natural philosopher and scientist that died in a year 428 B.C. at Lampsacus. 

         Anaxagoras stated that “A portion of everything is in everything”, he claimed that every substance contains a portion of every other substance but he clarified that out of these substances, one must dominate and that existents are named according to the particle that dominates in it. The particles are infinitely divisible; there can always be a smaller but there can never be a smallest. The particle combines and separates to bring about change in the dominating particle and the cause of the combining and separating off is the rotation of the heavenly bodies. Cosmos is the rotation of the mixture that begins in a small area, and then spreads out through the mass. The extent of mixture is unlimited so that the rotation and expansion will continue forever, bringing more and more ingredients into the whirl. The material ingredients of the cosmos exist in a completely vaccumless environment or in an empty space. Anaxagoras claimed that all the material ingredients of natural living things and the heavenly bodies are present in the original mix, but these objects themselves are not among the ingredients but are natural constructions, produced by the processes of mixture and separation that we call nutrition and growth, or by the rotations of the heavens and the attendant clumping together and breaking apart of the ingredients of the stars, clouds, comets, planets, and etc. A seed is a problem for any account of the original mixture. A seed might be the route through which mind enters a living thing. If a seed is mixed with the right ingredients in the right circumstances, a living thing willgrow. Anaxagoras maintaining that all of these seeds were densely compacted and mixed together in the beginning of the world but they were all mixed into they were so densely compact and mixed together all mixed as one, with no empty areas. Anaxagoras decided that this massive stuff that was mixed together and started spinning in a vortex like a little galaxy was he called the "Mind". The cosmos was formed by mind in two stages: first, by a revolving and mixing process that still continues; and, second, by the development of living things. Mind was the external force that accounts for all the motion, growth and change that occurs within the material ingredients. The mind is also the motor that causes the giant blender to mix the mixture of stuff. Mind was the finest and purest of all, it has power over all things, and it is the motivational force that brought about separation of everything out of the original mixture. According to him, the mind is distinct from other things, it is the free source of all movement, and it has the knowledge of all things in the past, present and future. The mind gives order to things that were to be, things that were now, and things that will be. 

         According to Anaxagoras, the primary function of Mind is to initiate motion within the cosmic mix of material ingredients. So the mind was the responsible for the rotation of the heavenly bodies that brought the combining and separating off of the particles. According to him, the origin of the world is depicted through this process of motion and separation from the unified mixture.

         Therefore, the theory of Anaxagoras was helpful because it can give us an idea of what is beyond of that thing. His theory was still present until today because everything we use in our daily lives there is composed of another mixture of elements on it. A thing that is like everything is composed of it. For Example: a paper is called a paper because the particle of paper dominates in it; if the paper is burnt it will turn to ash why? This is because ash is the present particle dominating but according to Anaxagoras that doesn’t mean the particle of paper there is totally destroyed, it is still part of the constitutive elements.

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