Everything in everything : Anaxagoras's metaphysics /

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (5th century BCE) is best known in the history of philosophy for his stance that there is a share of everything in everything. He puts forward this theory of extreme mixture as a solution to the problem of change he and his contemporaries inherited from Parmenides--that what...

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Main Author: Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The fundamental items in the ontology
  • 2. The principles governing the ontology
  • 3. A theory of extreme mixture
  • 4. Compresence versus containment of the opposites
  • 5. Intelligent powers
  • 6. Stoic gunk.