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Heraclitus
Biography
Born around 540 BCE in Ephesus, Anatolia (in modern Turkey)
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Not so much is known about his life, and the only book that is believed he ever wrote is lost
The philosophical ideas of Heraclitus are known to everyone through quoted fragments by later authors and philosophers
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Arché understatement
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Not known if he thought about real fire or just uses a metaphor for the constant flux he believes lies in the center of the world (and stands behind the states of change of everything)
Heraclitus believed that change is an important and essential part of someone's or something's existence ("It is not possible to step twice into the same river") that continues throughout the whole life
Despite believing in constant change, Heraclitus also believed that this change happens only within the frame of a universal rational order, which he called "Logos"
World explanation
The constant change ("flux")-absolutely everyone and everything is constantly under motion, change, transformation which Heraclitus symbolizes as "fire"
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Unity of opposites-opposites (such as good and evil) are forever connected and absolutely necessary for the balance in the world
Harmony-from a bigger perspective, all the changes, Heraclitus believed, and conflicts contribute to the ordered whole of the world
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