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Ancient Philosophy
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0740-2007
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Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Recurrent Aspects of Ancient Chinese, Greek, and Near Eastern World MapsThis paper seeks recurrent characteristics of ancient world maps from different cultures to gain insights into constant aspects of human perceptions and world views. Discussed is how circular horizons are introduced to delineate the far and unknown world, how the shapes of the known areas are idealised by being given regular shapes, and how the way from the rim to the centre often epitomises cosmogony or evolutionary progress.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:44Heft:2102 72 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, The Bounds of Experience: Encountering Anaximander’s In(de)finite(2017)In this paper I argue that the term ἄπειρος originally referred to things people experienced as inexhaustible, countless, or untraversable. This everyday usage provided the context for Anaximander’s notion of the ἄπειρον. This observation receives support from Anaximander’s world map, especially from its representation of an agent-indexed boundedness of lands and seas. That representation in turn draws upon and develops out of Homer and Hesiod, particularly the myth of Oceanus.Wissenschaftlicher Artikel417 362 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Anaximander’s ἄπειρον: from the Life-world to the Cosmic Event Horizon(2019)Scholars have claimed repeatedly that Anaximander’s notion of the ἄπειρον marks the first metaphysical concept, or even the first theoretical entity, in Western thought. The present paper scrutinizes this claim. Characterizing natural phenomena as ἄπειρος—that is, as being inexhaustible or untraversable by standard human means—was common in daily practice, especially when referring to landmasses and seas but also when referring to vast numbers of countable objects. I will deny the assumption that Anaximander’s notion started off as being a theoretical answer to a specific philosophical question. That said, the aforementioned everyday notion of ἄπειρος could still lead to the development of theoretical concepts. Based on the observations Anaximander did with seasonal sundials, the inexhaustible landmasses and seas just mentioned became depicted on his world map by means of concentric circles. These circles then marked the bounds of experience and, by being fixed and finite, suggested the possibility of traversing beyond what is directly experienced. Evaluating claims from recent Anaximander scholarship, the paper ends with a brief comparison with concepts from modern physics which play an analogous role of demarcating the bounds of experience.Wissenschaftlicher Artikel435 999