"If it were the same water every moment,
then it wouldn't be flowing,
meaning it would not be a river;
you can't ever break down the river
into constituent parts,
and determine where the river starts and ends...
the river is simply the result...
There's no end to becoming -
because there's no beginning to becoming.
Perhaps Fire was the only example
that Heraclitus had at hand to describe energy.
Flame seems just to appear,
and then disappear.
... dances around.
[Fire:] destructive and creative.
Becoming itself.
Logos: 'strife is justice'.
'Time is a child playing drafts'."
"Presumably, human beings would prefer gold to straw,
because we use gold in our economic system,
gold can buy you quite a bit of straw as well...
but there's no inherent 'value' to gold.
It has no 'value' at all to the donkey..."
Keegan Kjeldsen *,
откъс от аудио-курса (YouTube) му по 7-те най-важни философа ^ (link)
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* Keegan НЕ използва AI в текстовете си!
ИЗКЛЮЧИТЕЛЕН ПРЕПОДАВАТЕЛ ПО ФИЛОСОФИЯ,
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^ Талес, Анаксимандър, Хераклит, Парменид, Анаксагор, Емпедокъл, Демокрит.
