Apeiron

“The Unlimited is the first-principle of things that are. It is that from which the coming-to-be [of things and qualities] takes place, and it is that into which they return when they perish, by moral necessity, giving satisfaction to one another and making reparation for their injustice, according to the order of time.” (Anaximander, via Wheelwright, 1966)

Anaximander of Miletus, a presocratic philosopher born c. 610 BCE, delineated the apeiron (‘άπειρον) in his search for the ultimate substance of reality. Often translated as “unlimited” or “boundless”, the ancient Greek term carries connotations of both the infinite and the indeterminate. Our one remaining fragment pulls forward the moral necessity of reparation for injustice, a mandate appropriate for what 2025 is poised to carry. May we bound into the boundless with a sense of entangled satisfaction that a better world demands.