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Pythagoras propounded philosophy in this wise in order to loose thought from its fetters. Without thought nothing true can be discerned or known; thought hears and sees everything in itself, the rest is lame and blind. To obtain his end, Pythagoras makes use of mathematics, since this stands midway between what is sensuous and thought, as a kind of preliminary to what is in and for itself.
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Yifei Sun
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This whole, the universal and divine understanding, in unity with which we are logical, is, according to Heraclitus, the essence of truth. Hence that which appears as the universal to all, carries with it conviction, for it has part in the universal and divine Logos, while what is subscribed to by an individual carries with it no conviction from the opposite cause.
— Jun 02, 2021 02:44PM
Yifei Sun
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From his principle that everything that is, at the same time is not, it immediately follows that he holds that sensuous certainty has no truth; for it is the certainty for which something exists as actual, which is not so in fact. Not this immediate Being, but absolute mediation, Being as thought of, Thought itself, is Thought is the true being
— Jun 02, 2021 02:29PM
Yifei Sun
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They are not themselves process, but fire is process; and thus he maintains fire to be the elementary principle, and this is the real form of the Heraclitean principle, the soul and substance of the natureprocess. Fire is physical time, absolute unrest, absolute disintegration of existence, the passing away of the "other," but also of itself;
— Jun 02, 2021 12:58PM
Yifei Sun
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To Heraclitus the truth is to have grasped the essential being of nature, i.e. to have represented it as implicitly infinite, as process in itself; and consequently it is evident to us that Heraclitus could not say that the primary principle is air, water, or any such thing.
— Jun 02, 2021 12:57PM
Yifei Sun
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It is not that time is or is not, for time is nonbeing immediately in Being and Being immediately in nonbeing: it is the transition out of Being into nonbeing, the abstract Notion, but in an objective form, i.e. in so far as it is for us.
— Jun 02, 2021 12:54PM
Yifei Sun
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''what coincides and what conflicts, what is harmonious and what discordant, and from out of them all comes one, and from one, all."
— Jun 02, 2021 12:49PM
Yifei Sun
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For Heraclitus says: "Everything is in a state of flux; nothing subsists nor does it ever remain the same." And Plato further says of Heraclitus: "He compares things to the current of a river: no one can go twice into the same stream,"1 for it flows on and other water is disturbed.
— Jun 02, 2021 09:58AM
Yifei Sun
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"Being and nonbeing are the same; everything is and yet is not." The truth only is as the unity of distinct opposites and, indeed, of the pure opposition of being and nonbeing; but with the Eleatics we have the abstract understanding that Being is alone the truth. We say, in place of using the expression of Heraclitus, that the Absolute is the unity of being and nonbeing.
— Jun 02, 2021 09:57AM
Yifei Sun
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If we put aside the Ionics, who did not understand the Absolute as Thought, and the Pythagoreans likewise, we have the pure Being of the Eleatics, and the dialectic which denies all finite relationships. Thought to the latter is the process of such manifestations; the world in itself is the apparent, and pure Being alone the true.
— Jun 02, 2021 09:38AM
Yifei Sun
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If Aristotle says that Zeno denied movement because it contains an inner contradiction, it is not to be understood to mean that movement did not exist at all.
— Jun 02, 2021 07:02AM
