An Essay on Anaxagoras

by Malcolm Schofield

Book Overview

In Aristotle's view, Anaxagoras stood out from the other Presocratics as a sober man among the incoherent. This book explores the fragmentary evidence both for Anaxagoras' concept of mind - to which Aristotle was particularly referring - and for his subtle, complex and elusive theory of matter and change. It is concerned with two aspects of his writing in particular: its comparatively high ratio of dogmatic assertion to argument, and a pervasive ambiguity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521227224
• ISBN13: 9780521227223
• Release Date: April 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"