By: Maria Odete Madeira
Maybe the most important notion of Anaximander' s thinking is the notion of apeiron. The apeiron was described and interpreted by the community of the Greek thinkers, and among them Aristotle (Metaph), as a kind of undifferentiated mixture, without defined limits and rigorously uncharacterizable.
But, in the physical system of Anaximander, every process is conceived as a motion of separation. The apeiron corresponds to an initial chaos, which birthed a vortex that initiated a separation process. In the apeiron exists a principle of latent separation.
The mixture must be interpreted as a state of mutual neutralization of potentially separable opposites, a latent state of indifference.
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