Ordering of Time

Kočandrle, Radim; Couprie, Dirk L.

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Radim Kočandrle³ &
Dirk L. Couprie⁴

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Thus far we have mainly shown how, according to Anaximander, the creative power of boundless nature works through the coming to be of the cosmos and all that it contains. But apart from creation, there is also destruction and perishing. In contrast to boundless nature, existing things that have been generated in this process are not boundless but limited in place, time, and capacity. Not only do they come into being; they also perish.

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Notes

1.
Graham (2006, 51–52, 2010, 189).
2.
Graham (2006).
3.
Aristotle, Phys. 203b15–26 = DK 12A15 = Gr Axr16 = TP2 Ar2.
4.
Aetius, Plac. 1.3.3 = DK 12A14 = Gr Axr18 = TP2 Ar53.
5.
Aristotle Phys. 202b18–19 = DK 12A15 = Gr Axr16 = TP2 Ar2. Aristotle argues against this in Phys. 208a8–11 = DK 12A14 = TP2 Ar4, not in Gr.
6.
Aristotle, Phys. 203b15 = DK 12A15 = Gr Axr16 = TP2 Ar2.
7.
Hippolytus, Ref. I.6.1 = DK 12A11 = Gr Axr10 = TP2 Ar75.
8.
Homer, Il. II.447 , VIII.539 ; Od. V.218 .
9.
Euripides, fr. 910 Nauck .= DK 59A30.
10.
Simplicius, In Arist. Phys. 153.19 = DK 64B7 = Gr Dgn10; 153.20 = DK 64B8 = Gr Dgn11.
11.
Simplicius, In Arist. Phys. 9.110.3 = DK 30B4 = Gr Mls12.
12.
Pseudo-Plutarch, Strom. 2 = DK 12A10 = Gr Axr19 = TP2 Ar101.
13.
Guthrie (1985, 91) footnote 1, Cherniss (1951, 326) footnote 41, Lebedev (1978, I, 43–44) footnote 49, 50 and West (1971, 79) footnote 1.
14.
See, e.g. Classen (1962, 163 = 1986, 94), Dancy (1989, 166–169), Graham (2006, 30–31), Stokes (1976, 12–18) and Dührsen (2013, 282–284).
15.
Dancy (1989, 166 and n. 49). See Classen (1962, 163, n. 27) = 1986, 96 and 106, n. 27).
16.
Dancy (1989, 167).
17.
Simplicius, In Arist. Phys. 9.29.22–26 ; 109.20–25 = Gr Mls10 = DK 30B2.
18.
Dancy (1989, 166, n. 49).
19.
E.g. Simplicius, In Arist. Phys. 9.109.29–32 (31–32) = DK 30B3 = Gr Mls11, and 110.2–4 (3–4) = DK 30B4 = Gr Mls12.
20.
Simplicius, when speaking about Anaximander and other Presocratics, uses ἄπειρον κατὰ μέγεθος or ἄπειρον (τῷ) μεγέθει (and ἄπειρον κατὰ πλῆθος or ἄπειρον τῷ πλήθει) several times. See, e.g., In Arist. Phys. 9.140.34–141.8 (7) = DK 29B1 = Gr Zno7; 9.22.9–13 = TP2 Ar162, not in DK and Gr; 9.26.31–27–23 = TP2 Ar164, not in DK and Gr; 9.458.19–26 = TP2 Ar173; 10.1121.5–9 = TP2 Ar178, not in DK and Gr; 10.1188.5–10 = TP2 Ar179, not in DK and Gr; In Arist. De caelo 7.202.11–18 = TP2 Ar182, not in DK and Gr.
21.
Aristotle, Phys. 203b6–28 = DK 12A15 = Gr Axr16 = TP2 Ar2.
22.
Hippolytus, Ref. I.6.1 = DK 12A11 = Gr Axr10 = TP2 Ar75.
23.
Cf. Kahn (1994, 35) and Lebedev (1978, I, 44–45).
24.
Cf. KRS (2007, 108).
25.
Simplicius, In Arist. Phys. 9.24.13 = DK 12B1 = Gr Axr9 = TP2 Ar163 (our translation).
26.
Kahn (1994, 182–183).
27.
Kahn (1994, 195).
28.
West (1971, 83).
29.
Pseudo-Plutarch, Strom. 2 = DK 12A10 = Gr Axr19 = TP2 Ar101; our translation.
30.
Kahn (1994, 188).
31.
Ibidem.
32.
Simplicius, In Arist. De caelo 7.532.2–21 = TP2 Ar189; not in DK and Gr. See also Couprie (2011, 109) and Fehling (1994, 144–145).
33.
See Kahn (1994, 179) and Mourelatos (2008, 152).
34.
West (1971, 83).
35.
West (1971, 83).
36.
Solmsen (1962, 129).
37.
Turba, Sermo I.38–40 = Gr Axr29 = TP2 Ar270, not in DK.
38.
Aristotle, Meteor. 353b6–11 = DK 12A27 = Gr Axr34 = TP2 Ar8.
39.
Alexander, In Aristot. Meteorolog. 3.2, 67.3–12 = DK 12A27 = Gr Axr35 = TP2 Ar84.
40.
For a good overview of the relevant texts and interpretations, see McKirahan (2001).
41.
KRS (2007, 122–123).
42.
Aristotle, Phys. 203b6–10 = DK 12A15 = Gr Axr16 = TP2 Ar2.
43.
Pseudo-Plutarch, Strom. 2 = DK 12A10 = Gr Axr19 = TP2 Ar101; our translation.
44.
Simplicius, In Arist. Phys. 1121.12–17 = DK 13A11 = Gr Axs9 = TP2 As149; translation slightly adapted.
45.
Simplicius, In Arist. De caelo 294,4–7 = DK 22A10 = Gr Hct50.
46.
Hippolytus, Ref. I.14.4–6 = DK 21A33 = Gr Xns59; Graham translates the last words as “in all the world-orders”.
47.
Aetius, Plac. II.4.11 = DK 21A37, not in Gr; our translation.
48.
Aetius, Plac. II.4.6 = DK 12A17 =TP2 Ar144, not in Gr; our translation.
49.
Aetius, Plac. II.1.3 = DK 12A17 = TP2 Ar145, not in Gr; our translation.
50.
Furley (1987, 136); see also Furley (1989, 2): “(…) no one in classical antiquity believed that the world is infinite.”
51.
Gregory (2007, 37). See also KRS (2007, 122–123).
52.
Gregory (2007, 36).

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Kočandrle, R., Couprie, D.L. (2017). Ordering of Time. In: Apeiron . SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49754-9_8

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