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Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Heraclitus of Ephesus (
fl. c.500 bc), a philosopher who maintained that all things are in a state of flux. F.
Bacon calls him ‘the profound’, but more generally he was called ‘the weeping philosopher’ because of his conviction that nothing lasts.
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ON HERACLITUS.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...turns to three pre-Socratics: Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras.(1) He characterizes Heraclitus, clarus ob obscuram linguam, as having...darkness from Anaxagoras and turns Heraclitus reside out: he has a bright song about...
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`Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus,' translated by Brooks Haxton; Viking.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 5/2/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...more to the fan of both children than Heraclitus, that still discussed "author" of...same stream. What can you say about Heraclitus (c. 500 B.C) that you'd want...take the only revenge open to them for Heraclitus' insults to mankind." Because of...
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Issues Surrounding Logos in Heraclitus, Fragment B56.
Magazine article from: Michigan Academician; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT In fragment B56, Heraclitus recounts a traditional riddle and...obscure. Scholars suggest that Heraclitus intends to ridicule Homer's folly...language. Fragments reveal that Heraclitus regards logos as something hidden...
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Interview: Brooks Haxton discusses the works of the philosopher Heraclitus
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 8/12/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...discusses the works of the philosopher Heraclitus Host: LISA SIMEONE Time: 8:00...least that's what the philosopher Heraclitus thought. Mr. BROOKS HAXTON (Poet...you understand why. The Fragments of Heraclitus are all that remain of his treatise...
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THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF REVOLT: HERACLITUS, SURREALISM'S LIGHTNING-CONDUCTOR.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: symploke; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...published a pair of articles which introduce Heraclitus of Ephesus into the group's pantheon...addresses the curious surge of interest in Heraclitus manifested in three contemporary academic...Aragon notes that Hegel famously regarded Heraclitus as his precursor in developing a theory...
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Heraclitus; Homeric problems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 497 words
; 9789004130821 Heraclitus; Homeric problems. Heraclitus. Ed. and trans. by Donald A. Russell and David Konstan...Greco-Roman world; v.14 PA4035 This is not the famous Heraclitus, but a Greek living probably towards the end of the first...
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TRANSLATING "JUSTICE": HERACLITUS BETWEEN HEIDEGGER AND NIETZSCHE
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...another Greek called the "obscure one"-Heraclitus of Ephesus-that ancient Greek philosopher...Nietzsche's and Heidegger's retrieval of Heraclitus-especially his understanding of dike...utterances of Anaximander, Parmenides, and Heraclitus. In this other myth of justice, one...
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Heraclitus against the barbarians: John Fowles's 'The Magus.'(John Fowles Issue)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...truly exists (cf. Aristos ch. 6). Heraclitus complained that the people of his time...fragments 92 & 93] (Kahn 71). For Heraclitus, all life exists in the living tension...informs The Magus. According to Fowles, Heraclitus described mankind as divided into a...
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Heraclitus and Derrida: Presocratic Deconstruction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 499 words
; 0820474924 Heraclitus & Derrida; presocratic deconstruction...compares the fragmentary texts of Heraclitus to the thought of Jacques Derrida and...Although her intent is to introduce Heraclitus to students of Western philosophy and...
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Heraclitus. Writer of fragment ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/12/2001; 390 words
; Heraclitus. Writer of fragments. Some profound...Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus (Viking, $19.95), poet Brooks...giving way to this,/ now this." Heraclitus. Never ruled. But has outlived most...
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Heraclitus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Heraclitus The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (active 500 B.C.) attempted to explain the nature of...as the basic substance which underlies physical reality. Heraclitus was born in the lonian city of Ephesus and is said to have...
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Heraclitus of Ephesus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Heraclitus of Ephesus ( fl . ca . 500 b.c.) moral philosophy , natural philosophy . Heraclitus wrote a book (see Diogenes La ë...ambiguity. For ideas about the order of Heraclitus ’ exposition, and about the context...
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Philosophy, Western
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...outside air can no longer enter in to counteract compression. Heraclitus spoke of death more often than his contemporaries. For him...he argues that without them the cosmos would disintegrate. Heraclitus was among the first to suggest that not all souls perish at...
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Cycles
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Largely based on the physics of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus (c. 535 – 475 b.c.e.), the Stoics theorized...world and cause a great conflagration ( ekpyrosis ). Unlike Heraclitus, the Stoics identified this purgative fire with God, who...
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Cory, William Johnson
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...1858), and in particular for the translation that it contains of the epigram of Heraclitus of Halicarnassus by Callimachus , ‘They told me Heraclitus, they told me you were dead.’ He also wrote the ‘Eton Boating...
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