heraclitus in English

noun
1
( circa 500 bc ) , Greek philosopher. He believed that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion, everything being in a process of constant change.

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1. Heraclitus asserted that all nature is the unity of opposites and constant flux.

2. Pure being and pure non-being or nothingness are for Hegel pure abstractions from the reality of becoming and this is also how he interprets Heraclitus.

3. The attitude of Heraclitus to the religions of his time, at any rate the Bacchic religion, is largely hostile, but not with the hostility of a scientific rationalist.

4. Heraclitus does not form any abstract nouns from his ordinary use of "to be" and "to become" and in that fragment seems to be opposing any identity A to any other identity B, C and so on, which is not-A.

5. In the first part of his novel, Mr de Botton introduces his main character, Alice, and discusses the notion of reality with the help of such philosophers as Heraclitus, Plato, Hegel or Shopenhauer and poses the question, following Oscar Wilde, whether art imitates life or life that imitates art.

6. Anaximander’s orderly arrangement of just reciprocity governed by time is replaced by a system ruled by what Heraclitus calls war: “It is right to know that war is common and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are so ordained” (DKB80/LMD63)