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Heraclitus
World explanation
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The world, according to Heraclitus, is in accordance with Logos and is ultimately made of fire.
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Main theory: the world is an unified system where a change in one direction is eventually balanced by a change in the opposite direction.
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Biography
- Greek philosopher
- probably born around 540
- died in 484 BC
- a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher
- a native of Ephesus
Little is known about his life, and the one book he apparently wrote is lost. His views survive in the short fragments quoted and attributed to him by later authors.
Interesting Facts
He was best known for his cosmology, in which fire is the fundamental material basis of a well-ordered universe.
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Ideas
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Arché
"All things are an exchange for fire and fire for all things." It is not clear whether he meant literal or metaphorical fire.
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"It is not possible to step twice in the same river." His main idea was that the natural world was constantly changing and evolving.
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