Before entering into discussion of this fragment of Anaximander, I would like to remind you of what it is that we’re in the middle of. We spoke about two pairs of significations: chaos and kosmos, on the one hand; hybris and dikē, on the other hand. I told you how they’re similar, in my view. If there isn’t an identity or strict term for term equivalence, there’s certainly a very profound kinship. This kinship is nowhere spoken of as such—unless implicitly in this fragment of Anaximander, at least in the way I interpret it—but it is supported by everything we know about the Greek imaginary grasp of the world.

The explication of this non-rigorous homology drives us to distinguish on the anthropological plane between two levels of the meaning of the pair hybris/dikē. At the most profound level, the opposition itself erases itself to make way for something that is simply chaos, a law of annihilation reigning over the world.