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2 days ago · Heraclitus (/ ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs /; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Hērákleitos; fl.c.500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on ancient and modern Western philosophy, including through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger.
4 days ago · Heraclitus, who greatly influenced Nietzsche, believed in the cyclical recurrence of all things, including our lives in the afterlife. The Stoics also adhered to this idea. The Stoic philosophy of the universe “burning out” and being reborn is based on Heraclitus’ theory of eternal return and was also expressed by Plato and Aristotle.
5 days ago · Twenty years ago, the received view was that everything is made of hydrogen, which is two thirds of water. The Greeks were rash in their hypotheses, but the Milesian school, at least, was prepared to test them empirically. [3] But of course water is just not enough to explain the rich phenomenology of the existent.
4 days ago · Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some modern theorists view it as an inquiry into the fundamental categories of human understanding.
1 day ago · Determinism was developed by the Greek philosophers during the 7th and 6th centuries BCE by the Pre-socratic philosophers Heraclitus and Leucippus, later Aristotle, and mainly by the Stoics.
5 days ago · The dualism theory from the 17th century posited that the mind and body were two distinct systems without direct connections. Rene Descartes, the philosopher credited with this theory, believed that a person could have two separate living experiences: the mind and the body.
2 days ago · Archetype, (from Greek archetypos, “original pattern”), in literary criticism, a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation.
