HERACLITUS

hĕrəklīˈtəs, c.535–c.475 b.c., Greek philosopher of Ephesus, of noble birth. According to Heraclitus, there was no permanent reality except the reality of change; permanence was an illusion of the senses. He taught that all things carried with them their opposites, that death was potential in life, that being and not-being were part of every whole—therefore, the only possible real state was the transitional one of becoming. He believed fire to be the underlying substance of the universe and all other elements transformations of it. He identified life and reason with fire and believed that no man had a soul of his own, that each shared in a universal soul-fire.

See his Cosmic Fragments, ed. by G. S. Kirk (1954, repr. 1962); study by G. O. Griffith (1977).

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The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking
Book by Dennis Richard Danielson; Perseus Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Cosmology--History, Physics--Philosophy
HERACLITUS Heraclitus fl. c. 5th c. B.C. is best known for his aphorisms, which...its being night. Nature loves to hide. Diogenes Laertius presents Heraclitus as a sort of deconstructionist observer of his day, now delivering...
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Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects: World History
...ether of the unmoving Logos. Summary Heraclitus was quite unlike his contemporaries...scientific inquiry, the endeavors of Heraclitus were more closely akin to poesy and...mystical of the Greeks. Though the body of Heraclitus work is faulted by time, by problems...
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy - Vol. 15
Book by C. C. W. Taylor; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient--Periodicals
...According to its exponents, a central and essential theme of Heraclitus is universal change. I shall, then, call the figure they construct Heraclitus the Flux Theorist, or Heraclitus-F. Despite the disagreement over flux, there is some measure...
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
Book by Robin Waterfield; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Sophists (Greek Philosophy)
C. J. Emlyn-Jones, "Heraclitus and the Identity of Opposites...On Cosmogony and Ecpyrosis in Heraclitus", American Journal of Philology...1998 , 195-222. H. Frankel, "Heraclitus on God and the Phenomenal World...
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From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: History, Ancient--Dictionaries
...of Greek Philosophy , vol. 5, 1978. Menahem Luz HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS (c. 544-478 B.C.) Heraclitus was a reclusive aristocratic philosopher in the Ionian city of Ephesus. Heraclitus is most famous for promoting the claim that all is...
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On Heraclitus
Journal article by Seth Benardete; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Heraclitus (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Iliad (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Logos (Philosophy)--Analysis, Metaphysics--Analysis, Nothing (Philosophy)--Analysis, Odyssey (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ON HERACLITUS. by SETH BENARDETE "What is it that breathes...bodies and void, turns to three pre-Socratics: Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras.(1) He characterizes Heraclitus, clarus ob obscuram linguam, as having a bright...
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Translating "justice": Heraclitus between Heidegger and Nietzsche
Journal article by Charles Bambach; Philosophy Today, Vol. 50, 2006
Subjects: Existentialism, Good & evil, Heidegger, Martin, Heracleitus (540?-480? BC), Justice, Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900), Philosophers, Source studies
Translating "justice": Heraclitus between Heidegger and Nietzsche...Greek called the "obscure one"-Heraclitus of Ephesus-that ancient Greek...Nietzsches and Heideggers retrieval of Heraclitus-especially his understanding of...
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Apollo/Dionysus or Heraclitus/Anaxagoras? A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Nietzsche's View of Tragedy
Journal article by Nathan P. Devir; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 46, 2010
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm--Study and teaching, Philosophy--Study and teaching
Apollo/Dionysus or Heraclitus/Anaxagoras? A Hermeneutic Inquiry...Anaxagoras, and even more so of Heraclitus, in particular due to the latters...of the great Greeks reared me; in Heraclitus, Empedocles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras...
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Heraclitus against the Barbarians: John Fowles's 'The Magus
Journal article by Paul H. Lorenz; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 42, 1996
Subjects: English literature, 1901- (Contemporary period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fowles, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--Themes, motives, Self--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
Heraclitus against the barbarians: John Fowless...truly exists (cf. Aristos ch. 6). Heraclitus complained that the people of his time...same fragments 92 93 (Kahn 71). For Heraclitus, all life exists in the living tension...
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Never the Same River
Journal article by Wendell Johnson; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 61, 2004
Subjects: Galileo, Heraclitus, Philosophy, Semantics
...the Same River. by Wendell Johnson HERACLITUS THE GREEK cast a long shadow before...never at any two moments identical. Heraclitus was over two thousand years ahead of...science as we know it is not as old as Heraclitus--far from it. What Heraclitus expressed...
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Gone with the Wind: Orla Doherty Writes about Life on the RV Heraclitus Expedition, a Nine-Month Coral Reef Monitoring Trip on an 82-Foot Ocean-Going Research Vessel Which Is Supported by the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation
Magazine article by Orla Doherty; Geographical, Vol. 74, June 2002
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands--Discovery, exploration, etc., Doherty, Orla--Personal narratives, Explorers--Personal narratives, Philippines--Discovery, exploration, etc., Singapore--Discovery, exploration, etc.
...Doherty writes about life on the RV Heraclitus Expedition, a nine-month coral reef...days of unceasing winds brought the RV Heraclitus from Palawan in the Philippines to Singapore...to the open sea. Dolphins guided the Heraclitus out into the Straits, as we headed...
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Heraclitus of New Hampshire
Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 25, June 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Notebooks of Robert Frost (Book)--Book reviews
Heraclitus of New Hampshire. by Eric Ormsby Not surprisingly for "one acquainted...aphorism, is often intoned as though it were. These dark sayings of our own Heraclitus of New Hampshire have by now become so familiar as to appear immemorial...
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All aboard the Oceans: This Month, in a New Geogrophical Diary Series, Orla Doherty Describes Her Life on the RV Heraclitus Expedition, a Nine-Month Trip on an 82-Foot Ocean-Going Research Vessel. Supported by the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, the Expedition Is Undertaking Coral Reef Research, Drawing on Diving, Seamanship and Maritime Skills, International Teamwork and Cultural Interactions
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 74, May 2002
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands--Discovery, exploration, etc., Marine ecology--Pacific Ocean, Underwater exploration--Personal narratives
...Doherty describes her life on the RV Heraclitus Expedition, a nine-month trip on...in his underwater world. On the RV Heraclitus we dont wear red fishing hats, speak...colour and animals of wonder. From the Heraclitus we seek out all corners of the oceans...
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Ancient Greece's Death Penalty Dilemma and Its Influence on Modern Society
Magazine article by Robert Blecker; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 135, July 2006
Subjects: Ancient Greek civilization--Influence, Capital punishment--History, Capital punishment--Influence, Capital punishment--Social aspects, Civilization, Greek--Influence, Constitutions, Future punishment, Murderers--Civil rights, Premeditation (Law), Revenge, Society--Social policy
...cannot step in the same river twice," Heraclitus, the dark philosopher of Ephesus...anarchists insist. Thus, for them, as for Heraclitus, everything is relative: opposites...stick. A couple of centuries after Heraclitus, Socrates squared off against the wandering...
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Knowledge Management (Km) and the Epistemic Tradition
Magazine article by J. Michael Pemberton; ARMA Records Management Quarterly, Vol. 32, July 1998
Subjects: Epistemology, History, Knowledge, Managerial skills, Records management, United States
...science." It is with the pre-Socratic Heraclitus, however, that thinking about knowledge...Ionia, to the east of Greece proper, Heraclitus was one of the first thinkers to try...the world. Like many who came later, Heraclitus wanted to know "What" and "How...
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How the Wars of Heraclitus against the Persians Come to Be First Crusade
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 11, 2003
How the wars of Heraclitus against the Persians come to be first...warrior-kings, the Byzantine emperor Heraclitus, who ruled Constantinople from 610...a convincing case that the wars of Heraclitus against the Sasanian Persians (622...
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Heat's on to Find Winner from This Sizzling Sextet
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 18, 2010
...he died almost 500 years before Christ, it seems unlikely Heraclitus was a tennis fan. Yet when the pre-Socratic philosopher...You cannot step in the same river twice", was another Heraclitus catchphrase but the old boy was wrong there. These days in...
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Change Will Come; Harness It
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), October 12, 2010
...them. And fellow journalists who are no longer journalists. Heraclitus was right. "Nothing endures but change." But as Americans...wringing seem trivial by comparison. We forget that change, as Heraclitus said, isnt the exception, but the rule. And how we respond...
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Poll Dips Haven't Slowed Giuliani: N.Y. Mayor Passes Midpoint of Term
Newspaper article by Liz Trotta; The Washington Times, January 19, 1996
Subjects: Giuliani, Rudolph W., New York
...history. "Character is destiny," boomed Mr. Koch on his weekly radio show, by weeks end attributing his paraphrase to Heraclitus. "Its one thing to have character. Its another to be one," spat back Randy Mastro, the mayors chief of staff. Although...
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Understanding Syria
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 7, 2009
Subjects: Christianity
...sphere of Byzantine influence.At the battle of the Yarmuk River in 636, the victory of the Arabs over the army of Emperor Heraclitus was the beginning of the vast Islamic empire, and with the rise to power of the first Caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, the...
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Heraclitus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HERACLITUS her kli t s, c.535 c.475 b.c., Greek philosopher of Ephesus, of noble birth. According to Heraclitus, there was no permanent reality except the reality of change; permanence was an illusion of the senses. He taught that...
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Philosophy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Anaximenes , were concerned with finding the one natural element underlying all nature and being. They were followed by Heraclitus , Pythagoras , Parmenides , Leucippus , Empedocles , Anaxagoras , and Democritus , who took divergent paths in exploring the...
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Logos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...idea of the Logos is that it links God and man, hence any system in which the Logos plays a part is monistic. The Greek Heraclitus held (c.500 b.c.) that the world is animated and kept in order by fire this fire is the Logos; it is the power of...
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Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the 5th and 4th cent. b.c. included Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , Aristophanes , Phidias , Myron , Polykleitos , Heraclitus , Socrates , Plato , Aristotle , and Hippocrates . Although Athens succumbed in the Peloponnesian War (431 404 b.c...
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Zeno of Citium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...first two must serve the last. He attempted to base his stern ethical system on the metaphysical and scientific teachings of Heraclitus, Aristotle, and others, and to forge from these elements a consistent philosophy. Zeno taught in Athens at the Stoa Poecile...
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