Adikia. Severino e Anassimandro

This paper illustrates the interpretation of the Anaximander fragment proposed by Emanuele Severino in 1963, in light of the reference to the adikia, called to bear witness to the advent of the world, which lies at the heart of the sentence with which Western philosophical thought begins. The enquire highlights the theoretical context of Severino’s approach, linked to investigations into the originary structure of knowledge, with a view to a new “neoaristotelian” perspective, in an attempt to grasp the profound reasons for this appeal to early thinkers (Anaximander, Heraclitus and Parmenides). In this way, metaphysical discourse reaches a breaking point where the truth of being, which the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle had indeed set out to regain, paving the way for creationism, appears to Severino to be irremediably compromised.