Abstract

AVILA VASQUEZ, Manuel Oswaldo. TWO INTERPRETATIONS ON ANAXIMANDRUS' SENTENCE. OR, ON JUSTICE AND REPARATION. Univ. philos. [online]. 2011, vol.28, n.56, pp.61-83. ISSN 0120-5323.

Very little room for optimism has left many bloody confrontations and natural disasters, especially in Colombia's last decade. Does this pessimism obey to dramatic circumstances; does it have a deeper reason or which is its most devastating consequence? This essay aims to answer these questions from the oldest sentence of Western thought, that of the Milesian philosopher Anaximander: [The things that are perishing into the things out of which they come to be], "according to necessity, for they pay the penalty and retribution to each other for their injustice in accordance with the ordering of time". Now, from Nietzsche's and Heidegger's interpretations of this sentence, we aim to show how: (i) this sentence is in the very origin of the Western tradition nihilistic project; (ii) how it allows us to understand why we are witnessing an era founded on the dominance of "the whole earth and atmosphere", and (iii) how it suggests us three different interpretations of clamor for justice and reparation: from a moral sphere linking axiological and ontological elements (metaphysics); from the primacy given to the "attention and mutual agreement (in the reparation process) of disagreement, (the end of metaphysics)" or, finally, from a radical and affirmative orbit of life (beyond metaphysics).

Keywords : justice; reparation; pessimism; nihilism; Anaximandrus.

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