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- DictionaryHeraclitus/ˌhɛrəˈklʌɪtəs/
- 1. (c. 500 bc), Greek philosopher. He believed that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion, everything being in a (harmonious) process of constant change.
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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.
18 hours ago · This paper argues that reflections on evil and its origin formed part of philosophical inquiry already in the times of the Presocratics. It considers only those thinkers whose contribution to the issue may be characterised as noteworthy: Anaximander, the Pythagoreans, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Atomists. It is undeniable that none of the Presocratics presented an articulate ...
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.
18 hours ago · By combining Heraclitus, Exekias and Euclid, a pattern regarding measure appeared revealing the way the metaphor concerning the relevance of the representation of the love between Achilles and Penthesilea to read ὁμολογεῖν as awareness leading to a fitting together through a concert with a force, that being love, eros.
2 days ago · But then, from time to time, I found this in the late twenties in his seminary on [Die] Grundbegriffe [der Metaphysik] up to some late book, short, dialogue, with Eugen Fink [Probably the Heraclitus Seminar from 1966], he asks, Heidegger, totally totally naive question. But what happens with entities, things, independently of our perception of ...
1 day ago · Caeretan hydria (c. 530 BC) from Caere (Louvre E701). [ 1 ] In Greek mythology, Cerberus (/ ˈsɜːrbərəs / [ 2 ] or / ˈkɜːrbərəs /; Greek: ΚέρβεροςKérberos [ˈkerberos]), often referred to as the hound of Hades, is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.
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.
