By Heraclitus, Charles H. Kahn
ISBN-10: 052128645X
ISBN-13: 9780521286459
In the back of the superficial obscurity of what fragments now we have of Heraclitus' notion, Professor Kahn claims that it really is attainable to discover a scientific view of human lifestyles, a idea of language which sees ambiguity as a tool for the expression of a number of that means, and a imaginative and prescient of human existence and loss of life in the higher order of nature. The fragments are offered right here in a readable order; translation and remark objective to make available the ability and originality of a scientific philosopher and a good grasp of inventive prose. The remark locates Heraclitus in the culture of early Greek notion, yet stresses the significance of his principles for topical theories of language, literature and philosophy.
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Theophrastus' mistake (continued in the tradition, both ancient and modern, that treats Heraclitus' doctrine of fire as a physical theory of the same sort as Anaximenes') lies in ignoring the poetic and paradoxical nature of these statements concerning elemental change, and thus treating the mode of expression as irrelevant to the meaning. To make such a mistake is to disregard the hint that Heraclitus himself had given in speaking of the oracle which 'neither declares nor conceals but gives a sign' (XXXIII, D.
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