Anaximander
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- proper noun
- Considered a pioneer in cosmology, Anaximander argued that everything comes from a boundless source known as the apeiron.
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There is no Logos, no principle of intelligibility, in this particular Nomos of Anaximander.
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My central thesis in this paper is that Anaximander was, in fact, the first philosopher to harbor grave doubts about the remorseless working of this historical process.
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But however we understand justice, it is not its presence, but its decided absence, according to Anaximander, that characterizes experience.
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Experience, according to Anaximander, is characterized chiefly by the absence of justice.
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Anaximander is our first philosophical prophet, our existential moralist, raging at the dying of the light.
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In ancient philosophy, Anaximander proposed that the origin of all things is the infinite, a radical idea for his time.
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Historians often cite Anaximander as a significant figure in the transition from mythology to rational thought in ancient Greece.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anaximander comes from Greek where Anax- means 'lord' or 'king' and the second part is probably a family name. A helpful way to remember him is to think of this 'lord' who said the world began from the apeiron, the Greek word for the 'infinite', which is why he is remembered for that idea.