Pre-Socratic Philosophers

I found Anaxagoras to be the most compelling Pre-Socratic philosopher that I studied. He was a teacher of metaphysics who lived during the era of (c. 500 - c. 428 .), (Moore & Bruder, 2008, p. 29). I found his distinctions between matter and mind to be fascinating. Many of his ideas about change and particles still hold true today.

Anaxagoras believed that every different type of mass consists of a make-up of its own particles and particles from all others (Moore & Bruder, 2008, p. 29). Even though the particles that he spoke of could not be considered "atoms", his ideas are still closely related to modern-day science. Considering the era he lived in, the concepts that he communicated were extremely beyond his time.

Although both Aristotle and Plato...