Heraclitus

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born

December 30, 0534 in Ephesus, Ionia, Greece

died

December 31, 0474

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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/

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Philosophy

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A Greek philosopher of Ephesus (near modern Kuşadası, Turkey) who was active around 500 BCE, Heraclitus propounded a distinctive theory which he expressed in oracular language. He is best known for his doctrines that things are constantly changing (universal flux), that opposites coincide (unity of opposites), and that fire is the basic material of the world. The exact interpretation of these doctrines is controversial, as is the inference often drawn from this theory that in the world as Heraclitus conceives it contradictory propositions must be true.

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Average rating: 4.26 · 528 ratings · 38 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Fragments by Heraclitus, Brooks Haxton (Translator), James Hillman (contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 1903 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary by Heraclitus, Charles H. Kahn (Editor) 4.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments by Heraclitus, G.S. Kirk 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Alles stroomt by Heraclitus, Paul Claes (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Dell'origine 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Heraclitus: Homeric Problems (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) by Heraclitus, D.A. Russell, David Konstan 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Testimonianze, imitazioni e frammenti by Heraclitus, M. Marcovich (Redattore), R. Mondolfo (Redattore) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Heraclitus: Translation and Analysis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Mythographi Graeci, Volume 3, Part 1 by Heraclitus, Joannes Pediasimus, Antonius Liberalis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Hippocrates by Heraclitus, Hippocrates, W.H.S. Jones (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: