Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Literate Chaotic => Topic started by: Cain on May 01, 2006, 11:57:42 PM

Title: Heraclitus - the complete philosophical fragments
Post by: Cain on May 01, 2006, 11:57:42 PM
Heraclitus was born at Ephesus of aristocratic parentage around 540 B.C. and lived until 475 B.C. We know almost nothing finite about his life, except that he was early known as difficult of comprehension, hence the nickname "The Dark One" or in Greek skoteinos. There is no absolute evidence for a Book of his philosophical ideas, and the hundred or so "Fragments", which are quoted from later sources, seem to derive from his personal Sayings or Counsels, much in the manner of Pythagoras' Symbola. Strangely many of the cited fragments come from Christian sources, bent on disproving or ridiculing Heraclitus' words, a bad effort which has the good effect of giving us a few more of Heraclitus' precious insights.

http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Philosophy/Heraclitus.html

Read now plz.  You'll find him very relevant to Discordianism.
Title: Heraclitus - the complete philosophical fragments
Post by: LMNO on May 02, 2006, 02:17:36 PM
This is true.  My dad gave me a book of his collected fragments.  I found them interesting, and vague enough to interpret in many different ways.