Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras (c.500-425 BC) was a Greek philosopher of Clazomenæ in Ionia. He was forced to move out of Ionia. He went to live in Athens and took his philosophy along with him and transplanted it there. However, being banished thence for impiety to the gods, settled in Lampsacus.

Anaxagoras was the first to assign to the 'nous' (mind), conceived of "as a purely immaterial principle, a formative power in the origin and organisation of things".

According to his philosophy, all matter is infinitely divisible and motionless until it is animated by mind.

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