Title | Plural Worlds in Anaximander |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1994 |
Journal | The American Journal of Philology |
Volume | 115 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 485-506 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
The ancients ascribed to Anaximander a belief in plural worlds, but the state of the evidence does not make it immediately clear whether these worlds are coexistent or successive. Zeller argued that they could not be coexistent, but his view was challenged by Burnet; yet Cornford, as Kirk puts it, "demonstrated that Burnet's argument . . . rested on a false assessment of the doxographic evidence on this point, as well as on the misinterpretation of several later Presocratics." So far so good, but Kirk goes further and contends not only that coexis- tent worlds have been wrongly assigned to Anaximander, as Zeller and Cornford have shown, but that successive worlds are also a doxo- graphic error; a similar view is argued by Kahn. In this essay I propose to scrutinize our evidence on Anaximander's plural worlds and to exam- ine, systematically and exhaustively, Kirk's and Kahn's criticism of this evidence-both as against the doxographic testimony and on its own merits. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/mcqsVGIwcLUKvP2 |
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Title | Anaximander's Conception of the "Apeiron" |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1993 |
Journal | Phronesis |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 229-256 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Anaximander's Apeiron is perhaps the most obscure notion in Greek philos- ophy. Aristotle was puzzled by it, suggesting various and greatly differing interpretations of the concept. But while Aristotle's construals were in a sense predominantly ad hoc and exempli gratia, Theophrastus committed himself, at least in the expository sections of his Physical Opinions, to a concise presentation - with attention to their authentic setting and idiom - of the teachings of the earlier thinkers... [p. 229] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/JF4CzPpwZEekdai |
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Title | Studies in Xenophanes |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1990 |
Journal | Harvard Studies in Classical Philology |
Volume | 93 |
Pages | 103-167 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Discussion of Xenophanes' teaching with texts of Aristotle, Ps.-Plutarch, Simplicius, Theophrastus. |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/P4ntkCF3J6g1jAI |
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Title | The Cosmology of Parmenides |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1986 |
Journal | The American Journal of Philology |
Volume | 107 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 303-317 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Our main source of information about the cosmological component of Parmenides’ doctrine of Opinion —apart from the first three and a half abstruse lines of fr. 12 — is Aetius’ account. This, however, is generally regarded as confused, garbled and incompatible with fr. 12. The reconstruction of Parmenides’ cosmology is thus considered a hopeless task, for “it must inevitably be based on many conjectures.” I, however, cannot accept this conclusion, for, as I argue below, it is possible to provide a reasonably intelligible account of Aetius’ report (except for the corrupt sentence about the goddess) which is also compatible with fr. 12, provided, of course, that we are not bent upon proving our sources incompatible, but rather seek to reconcile them. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ACI5Tk5oRBRvxWG |
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Title | Anaximander's Conception of the "Apeiron" |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1993 |
Journal | Phronesis |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 229-256 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Anaximander's Apeiron is perhaps the most obscure notion in Greek philos- ophy. Aristotle was puzzled by it, suggesting various and greatly differing interpretations of the concept. But while Aristotle's construals were in a sense predominantly ad hoc and exempli gratia, Theophrastus committed himself, at least in the expository sections of his Physical Opinions, to a concise presentation - with attention to their authentic setting and idiom - of the teachings of the earlier thinkers... [p. 229] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/JF4CzPpwZEekdai |
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Title | Plural Worlds in Anaximander |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1994 |
Journal | The American Journal of Philology |
Volume | 115 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 485-506 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
The ancients ascribed to Anaximander a belief in plural worlds, but the state of the evidence does not make it immediately clear whether these worlds are coexistent or successive. Zeller argued that they could not be coexistent, but his view was challenged by Burnet; yet Cornford, as Kirk puts it, "demonstrated that Burnet's argument . . . rested on a false assessment of the doxographic evidence on this point, as well as on the misinterpretation of several later Presocratics." So far so good, but Kirk goes further and contends not only that coexis- tent worlds have been wrongly assigned to Anaximander, as Zeller and Cornford have shown, but that successive worlds are also a doxo- graphic error; a similar view is argued by Kahn. In this essay I propose to scrutinize our evidence on Anaximander's plural worlds and to exam- ine, systematically and exhaustively, Kirk's and Kahn's criticism of this evidence-both as against the doxographic testimony and on its own merits. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/mcqsVGIwcLUKvP2 |
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Title | Studies in Xenophanes |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1990 |
Journal | Harvard Studies in Classical Philology |
Volume | 93 |
Pages | 103-167 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Discussion of Xenophanes' teaching with texts of Aristotle, Ps.-Plutarch, Simplicius, Theophrastus. |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/P4ntkCF3J6g1jAI |
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Title | The Cosmology of Parmenides |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1986 |
Journal | The American Journal of Philology |
Volume | 107 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 303-317 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Finkelberg, Aryeh |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Our main source of information about the cosmological component of Parmenides’ doctrine of Opinion —apart from the first three and a half abstruse lines of fr. 12 — is Aetius’ account. This, however, is generally regarded as confused, garbled and incompatible with fr. 12. The reconstruction of Parmenides’ cosmology is thus considered a hopeless task, for “it must inevitably be based on many conjectures.” I, however, cannot accept this conclusion, for, as I argue below, it is possible to provide a reasonably intelligible account of Aetius’ report (except for the corrupt sentence about the goddess) which is also compatible with fr. 12, provided, of course, that we are not bent upon proving our sources incompatible, but rather seek to reconcile them. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ACI5Tk5oRBRvxWG |
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