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"Fire. Heraclitus believed the cosmos "no god nor man did create, but it ever was and is and will be: ever-living fire". The Milesians before Heraclitus had a view called material monism which conceived of certain elements as the arche – Thales with water, Anaximander with apeiron, and Anaximenes with air." - Wikipedia entry
Viewing fire as the essential material uniting all things, Heraclitus wrote that the world order is an “ever-living fire kindling in measures and being extinguished in measures.” He extended the manifestations of fire to include not only fuel, flame, and smoke but also the ether in the upper atmosphere. Part of that air, or pure fire, “turns to” ocean, presumably as rain, and part of the ocean turns to earth. Simultaneously, equal masses of earth and sea everywhere are returning to the respective aspects of sea and fire. The resulting dynamic equilibrium maintains an orderly balance in the world. That persistence of unity despite change is illustrated by Heraclitus’s famous analogy of life to a river: “Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and ever different waters flow down.” Plato later took that doctrine to mean that all things are in constant flux, regardless of how they appear to the senses.
Heraclitus was unpopular in his time and was frequently scorned by later biographers. His primary contribution lies in his apprehension of the formal unity of the world of experience.
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It interests me much. Social harmony. "reason" The underlying connection between opposites. Heraclitus’s STUFF is not as popular as one would imagine it should be. But...
Viewing fire as the essential material uniting all things, Heraclitus wrote that the world order is an “ever-living fire kindling in measures and being extinguished in measures.” He extended the manifestations of fire to include not only fuel, flame, and smoke but also the ether in the upper atmosphere. Part of that air, or pure fire, “turns to” ocean, presumably as rain, and part of the ocean turns to earth. Simultaneously, equal masses of earth and sea everywhere are returning to the respective aspects of sea and fire. The resulting dynamic equilibrium maintains an orderly balance in the world. That persistence of unity despite change is illustrated by Heraclitus’s famous analogy of life to a river: “Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and ever different waters flow down.” Plato later took that doctrine to mean that all things are in constant flux, regardless of how they appear to the senses.
Heraclitus was unpopular in his time and was frequently scorned by later biographers. His primary contribution lies in his apprehension of the formal unity of the world of experience.
Heraclitus | Biography, Philosophy, Logos, Fire, & Facts
Heraclitus, Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe. Little is known about his life, and the one book he apparently wrote is lost. His primary contribution lies in his apprehension of the formal unity of the world of...
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It interests me much. Social harmony. "reason" The underlying connection between opposites. Heraclitus’s STUFF is not as popular as one would imagine it should be. But...
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