Pondering Nietzche and the Anaximander Fragment

The Anaximander fragment, one of the most important pieces of philosophical history. It’s existence beckons to be the first complete and coherent sentence dealing with a philosophical thought. Though in Greek when its existence was first discovered, Nietzsche translates it and gives an in depth running of its meaning. Or so he believes himself to have done, in actuality, it just leaves itself open for even further questioning and ponder. Nietzsche claims a variable amount of ideas with his commentary on Anaximander’s fragment; trying himself to resolve the complex duality of nature only to come to a single conclusion on the subject: impossibility.

Time. It is quite an enigma; it is a manufactured product by man. One of many variables and specifications, yet in theory it does not actually exist, but still we default that its existence is real. Anaximander’s fragment is one that can be analyzed and novels can be derived from it. It says so little but within the fragment lays an innumerable amount of classifications. The first general sense is time and its dualities. Life and time are of one single aberration but yet at the same moment that they exist in a sort of harmony with each other they also present many facets of split offerings with each other.