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Anaximander's "Boundless Nature"

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F13%3A43920421" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/13:43920421 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Anaximander's "Boundless Nature"

  • Original language description

    The received interpretation maintains that Anaximander made "the Boundless" (to apeiron) the source and principle of everything. Aristotle says that all the physicists made something else the subject of which apeiros is a predicate (Phys. 203a4). This means that Anaximander, too, did not make to apeiron the source or principle of everything, but called something else apeiros. The hypothesis defended in this article is that this something else must have been phusis, in the pregnant sense of natura creatrix: the power that brings everything into existence and makes it grow and move. Being boundless, the mechanisms of nature, in which opposites play an important role, are multifarious. The things created by the power of nature are not boundless, but finite, as they are delivered up to the destruction they impose onto each other, as Anaximander?s fragment says.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

    AA - Philosophy and religion

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0138" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0138: Research Center for the Theory and History of Science</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů