By Hans-Georg Gadamer
ISBN-10: 0826411959
ISBN-13: 9780826411952
During this paintings Gadamer reminds us that philosophy for the Greeks used to be not only a query of metaphysics and epistemology yet encompassed cosmology, physics, arithmetic, medication and the complete achieve of theoretical interest and highbrow mastery. while Gadamer's booklet "The starting of Philosophy" handled the inception of philosophical inquiry, this ebook brings jointly the vast majority of his formerly released yet by no means translated essays at the Presocratics. starting with a hermeneutical and philological research of the Heraclitus fragments (1974 and 1990), he then strikes directly to a dialogue of the Greek Atomists (1935) and the Presocratic cosmologists (1964). within the final essays (1978 and 1994/95), Gadamer elaborates at the profound debt that glossy medical pondering owes to the Greek philosophical culture.
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It fits in with this guiding principle that one of the artistic modes that plays a predominating role in Heraclitus corresponds nicely to such a paradoxical style: the pun. A pun is based on the sudden shift from one already accomplished orientation of meaning and understanding into a completely different one. "18 This depends on the consonance of the word 'bios' for both life and bow. Within the word, there is already a unity of opposites. This is surely the reason why Heraclitus especially loves puns.
There fire is mentioned, as 'the warm itself that is within fire (413c 3), along with helios and Anaxagorean nous, as something that permeates all appearances and is brought into connection with what is just (the dikaion). 16 Let us ask ourselves how we are able to proceed any further at all in the uncertainty that comes over us in this situation that we have inherited. In my opinion, there is only one methodological point of entry: the morphological one. We can work out the structure of the unambiguous statements that can only belong to Heraclitus because they are all as similar to each other as family members.
On the one hand, Heraclitus is employed as the originator and symbol of a worldview which knows nothing of the abiding sameness of the essence of things, of the 'eidos,' but instead sees everything in change, everything in flux. In one famous construct in the Theaetetus (152e), Plato characterizes all previous thinkers from Homer to Protagoras (with the single exception of Parmenides) as Heraclitean. For anyone familiar with the Platonic mode, this means that Heraclitus is stylized here as a type, a type that does not necessarily concur with what Plato himself had seen in Heraclitus—or even what Heraclitus actually said and intended.
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