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Heraclitus


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Author : Philip Wheelwright
language : en
Publisher: Colchis Books
Release Date : 1974

Heraclitus written by Philip Wheelwright and has been published by Colchis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Philosophy categories.


Heraclitus himself was a native of Ephesus, an Ionian city some twenty-five miles north of Miletus and inland from the sea, and he is said by Diogenes Laertius to have flourished there in the sixty-ninth Olympiad, which would be roughly equivalent to 504-500 B.C. His family was an ancient and noble one in the district, and Heraclitus inherited from them some kind of office, partly religious, partly political, the exact nature of which is not clear, but it involved among other things supervision of sacrifices. Doubtless such an office was not congenial to a man of his impatient temperament, and he resigned it in favor of a younger brother. The banishment of his friend Hermodorus by a democratic government increased a natural antagonism to the masses and confirmed him in his philosophical withdrawal. So much is virtually all that can be known about Heraclitus with reasonable probability. Diogenes Laertius’ short essay on him in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers10 is a rather scatterbrained affair, and there is no reason to take seriously his fantastic account of the philosopher’s death by self-burial in a cow stall in a vain effort to cure an attack of dropsy. Such improbable tales were not uncommon about ancient “wise men,” and Diogenes provides more than his share of them; quite possibly their origin was aetiological in that they grew out of popular misunderstandings of something that the philosopher had taught. In the case of Heraclitus we cannot even know whether it is true that he died of dropsy; the story could easily have been a figment suggested by his remark, “It is death for souls to become water.” In temperament and character Heraclitus was said to have been gloomy, supercilious, and perverse. Diogenes calls him a hater of mankind, and says that this characteristic led him to live in the mountains, making his diet on grass and roots, a regimen which brought on his final illness. Such an account, however, is of the sort that could easily have been invented out of a general view of the philosopher’s character. At any rate, Heraclitus was certainly no lover of the masses, and his declaration, “To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate” (Fr. 84), makes it evident that he was not one to suffer fools gladly. He would have understood and approved of Nietzsche’s definition of the truly aristocratic man as one whose thoughts, words, and deeds are inwardly motivated by a “feeling of distance.”11 However, to call him a pessimist and compare him to Schopenhauer, as more than one interpreter of his writings has done, is to treat him in a misleadingly one-sided manner. Pessimism, where it is a philosophy and not just a mood, affirms the doctrine that there is more evil in the world than good, or that the evil is somehow more fundamental or more real. Heraclitus does not commit himself to so partisan a statement. His doctrine is rather that good and evil are two sides of the same reality, as are. up and down, beauty and ugliness, life and death. The wise man attempts to set his mood by looking unflinchingly at both sides of the picture, not at either the bright or the dark alone.



The Fragments Of The Work Of Heraclitus Of Ephesus On Nature Translated From The Greek Text Of Bywater With An Introduction Historical And Critical By G T W Patrick


The Fragments Of The Work Of Heraclitus Of Ephesus On Nature Translated From The Greek Text Of Bywater With An Introduction Historical And Critical By G T W Patrick
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Author : Heraclitus (of Ephesus.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

The Fragments Of The Work Of Heraclitus Of Ephesus On Nature Translated From The Greek Text Of Bywater With An Introduction Historical And Critical By G T W Patrick written by Heraclitus (of Ephesus.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Philosophy of nature categories.




Heraclitus


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Author : Heraclitus
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1962

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A text and study of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it.



Heraclitus


Heraclitus
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Author : Heraclitus
language : en
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Release Date : 2005

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Heraclitus


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Author : Heraclitus (of Ephesus.)
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1987-07-11

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This volume provides the Greek text of Heraclitus with a new, facing page translation together with a commentary outlining the main problems of interpretation and the philosophical issues raised by Heraclitus' work.



The Art And Thought Of Heraclitus


The Art And Thought Of Heraclitus
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Author : Heraclitus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-09-03

The Art And Thought Of Heraclitus written by Heraclitus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-09-03 with Philosophy categories.


Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic view of human existence, a theory of language which sees ambiguity as a device for the expression of multiple meaning, and a vision of human life and death within the larger order of nature. The fragments are presented here in a readable order; translation and commentary aim to make accessible the power and originality of a systematic thinker and a great master of artistic prose. The commentary locates Heraclitus within the tradition of early Greek thought, but stresses the importance of his ideas for topical theories of language, literature and philosophy.



Heraclitus


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Author : Martin Heidegger
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-29

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Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on Heidegger's understanding of Greek thinking, as well as his understanding of Germany, the history of philosophy, the Western world, and their shared destinies.



Fragmenta


Fragmenta
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Author : Charles H. Kahn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-09-03

Fragmenta written by Charles H. Kahn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-09-03 with Philosophy categories.


Professor Kahn pieces together the fragments of Heraclitus' thought and philosophy.



The Fragments Of The Work Of Heraclitus Ephesius On Nature


The Fragments Of The Work Of Heraclitus Ephesius On Nature
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Author : Heraclitus (Ephesius)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

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The Logos Of Heraclitus


The Logos Of Heraclitus
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Author : Eva Brann
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
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“In this extraordinary meditation, Eva Brann takes us to the fierce core of Heraclitus's vision and shows us the music of his language. The thought and beautiful prose in The Logos of Heraclitus are a delight.”—Barry Mazur, Harvard University “An engaged solitary, an inward-turned observer of the world, inventor of the first of philosophical genres, the thought-compacted aphorism,” “teasingly obscure in reputation, but hard-hittingly clear in fact,” “now tersely mordant, now generously humane.” Thus Eva Brann introduces Heraclitus—in her view, the West’s first philosopher. The collected work of Heraclitus comprises 131 passages. Eva Brann sets out to understand Heraclitus as he is found in these passages and particularly in his key word, Logos, the order that is the cosmos. “Whoever is captivated by the revelatory riddlings and brilliant obscurities of what remains of Heraclitus has to begin anew—accepting help, to be sure, from previous readings—in a spirit of receptivity and reserve. But essentially everyone must pester the supposed obscurantist until he opens up. Heraclitus is no less and no more pregnantly dark than an oracle…The upshot is that no interpretation has prevailed; every question is wide open.”