Ancient PhilosophyGreek Pre-Socratics |
What was Anaxagoras’ idea about the Mind? |
Anaxagoras of Clazoenae (c. 500–428 B.C.E.) believed that the first cause of motion was Mind, which is separate from everything else. Mind created the things in the world by starting a vortex in which different kinds of matter separated out.

Democratus appears on a 1967 Greek drachma note (BigStock).