This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...and, for this, Aristotle greatly honours him: "he was like a sober man amongst men who spoke at random " otov vricpov icpdvri irap' euqi XeyovTaf (Meta. I, 3, 984 b, 16). In the beginning, all the elementary substances are mixed up together. The distinction and combination of like particles are the work of an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...and, for this, Aristotle greatly honours him: "he was like a sober man amongst men who spoke at random " otov vricpov icpdvri irap' euqi XeyovTaf (Meta. I, 3, 984 b, 16). In the beginning, all the elementary substances are mixed up together. The distinction and combination of like particles are the work of an organizing and motor force, namely, Now?, intelligence: iravTa v o/xw?, o Now? iXOwv iravTa SieKoa-/J-rja-e. Anaxagoras distinctly separates matter from the force by which it is moved and governed: but the attributes by which he characterizes intelligence, show that his notion of it was not yet very clear. The NoCs is simple, and not like all other things, composed of heterogeneous elements. Mixing with nothing it exists alone and of itself, "pwos Gu'tos ij eiovrov Vttiv" (Frag. 8). It is infinite (aTrapov), independent (avroKparis), never passive (ajraes), it has unlimited knowledge, "knows what is mixed, what is distinct, and what is separate" (Simpl. De Cael. 271a, 20). Lastly, it has absolute power over matter, to which it alone can communicate motion: "yviopr/v Trcpl iravTos Trao-av icrei Kal lcrvei fiiyurrov" (Frag. 8). Such is the spiritual element in the conception which Anaxagoras formed of the Now. But, on the other hand, his Now? is described as the most subtile of all things: Xeirrorarov (Frag. 8); its quality does not change, but its quantity varies. The souls of other beings are parts of it; and these parts may be either greater or smaller. "In everything there are parts of everything except perhaps of intelligence, but in some beings there is also intelligence" (Frag. 7). The Now? was thus a kind of world-soul, an intermediate substance, which was akin to the spiritual in so far as it wa...
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