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Praxis Filosófica
versión impresa ISSN 0120-4688versión On-line ISSN 2389-9387
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SALLES, Ricardo. Aristotle and the apeiron of Anaximander. Prax. filos. [online]. 2020, n.51, pp.151-176. ISSN 0120-4688. https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i51.10077.
The aim of this paper is to resolve a tension that seems to arise in Aristotle’s conception of the Anaxinander’s ‘apeiron’, the substance out which the cosmos was generated. In some parts of the corpus, Aristotle seems to present the apeiron as a basic body that generates the cosmos through a change of qualities; but in other, he argues that it is a composite body made of basic bodies that separate from each other to generate the cosmos. As we shall see, however, only this second model is the only one that Aristotle really ascribes to Anaximander. At end, a hypothesis is advanced regarding who could be the person, or group of persons, that Aristotle has in mind when he refers to the first model.
Palabras clave : Cosmogony; Zoogony; Preplatonicos; Substance; Qualities.