Anaxagoras · Philosophy

Mind Orders the Cosmos

Anaxagoras was the first to set <em>Nous</em> - Mind - at the origin of the world: an intelligent ordering principle that set the primordial chaos spinning and arranged all things. With it, reason itself enters the explanation of nature.

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You learned that Anaxagoras introduced Nous (Mind) as the ordering cause of the cosmos: an intelligent, unmixed principle that set the primordial mixture spinning and arranged all things. Explain what Nous is and why making Mind a cause of the world order was revolutionary.

Leads to Plato.

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