Anaximander Without the Apeiron: Making Sense of Aristotle’s and Theophrastusʼ Reports
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2025-0020" target="_blank" >10.1515/apeiron-2025-0020</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Anaximander Without the Apeiron: Making Sense of Aristotle’s and Theophrastusʼ Reports
Original language description
In the case of Anaximander, there are two sources of indirect reports or ofwhat Diels called testimonia: 1) Aristotle’s works and 2) Theophrastus’ lost writingPhysikai Doxai, which is to be reconstructed by means of reports in other doxographers.Usually, it is assumed that both sources of testimonia complement eachother. However, at least as regards Anaximander’s alleged principle of the Apeiron,there is a deep gap between Aristotle’s and Theophrastus’ testimonies, as whileAristotle interprets Anaximander in pluralistic terms (not mentioning the Apeironanywhere), Theophrastus attributes a monistic concept of the Apeiron to him. Thecomparison of how Aristotle and Theophrastus approached Anaximander suggeststhat both tried to categorise or conceptualise the original cosmogonical mass bymeans of principles. Thus, it was only Theophrastus who introduced the concept ofthe Apeiron as a designation of the original mass from which the world subsequentlydeveloped.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Apeiron-A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
ISSN
0003-6390
e-ISSN
2156-7093
Volume of the periodical
58; 2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
"271–300"
UT code for WoS article
001507733800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105008288382