Apeiron. Anaximander on Generation and Destruction

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49754-9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49754-9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49754-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-49754-9</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Apeiron. Anaximander on Generation and Destruction
Original language description
Anaximander traditionally applied the term to apeiron to designate the origin of everything. The authors’ investigation of the extant sources shows, however, that this common view misses the mark. They argue that instead of reading to apeiron as a noun, it should be considered an adjective, with reference to the term phusis (nature), and that the phrase phusis apeiros may express the boundless power of nature, responsible for all creation and growth. The authors also offer an interpretation of Anaximander's cosmogony from a biological perspective: each further step in the differentiation of the phenomenal world is a continuation of the original separation of a fertile seed. This new reading of the first written account of cosmology stresses the central role of the boundless power of nature.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
B - Specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-08890S" target="_blank" >GA15-08890S: The intertwinement of flat earth cosmology and meteorology in ancient Ionian philosophy</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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