#first-principle

¶ A source that is not one of the things it produces: Anaximander’s apeiron and Plotinus’s One

In my library we keep a small display on the Alexandrian Neoplatonists, and I have been rereading Plotinus between cataloguing jobs. What strikes me is a move that appears, in different forms, at both ends of Greek philosophy. Anaximander, very early, said…