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  2. May 3, 2024 · element. logos. Top Questions. Why is Heraclitus important? What did Heraclitus believe? What did Heraclitus write? Heraclitus (born c. 540 bce, Ephesus, Anatolia [now Selçuk, Turkey]—died c. 480) was a Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe.

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  3. The logos is the representative in speech of the truth of War (Gigon 1935:18; war accounts for the style of Heraclitus’ work). The logos is just an abbreviation for the book, that is, “the eternal truth.” A radical position: “eine Lehre, ein System steht am Anfang” (“a doctrine, a system, is there at the beginning”) (5).

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    Greek spelling of logos. A core concept for Heraclitus is logos, an ancient Greek word literally meaning "word, speech, discourse, or meaning". For Heraclitus, the logos seems to designate the rational structure or ordered composition of the world.

  5. Feb 8, 2007 · Having harkened not to me but to the Word (Logos) it is wise to agree that all things are one. (B50) Heraclitus stresses that the message is not his own invention, but a timeless truth available to any who attend to the way the world itself is.

  6. Heraclitus (fl. c. 500 B.C.E.) A Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE, Heraclitus criticizes his predecessors and contemporaries for their failure to see the unity in experience. He claims to announce an everlasting Word (Logos) according to which all things are one, in some sense.

  7. Feb 15, 2013 · In this guest piece, read about Heraclitus, the first Greek to place such attention on the idea of the Logos, or the rational underlying structure of the universe, a concept which later underpinned the practice of ancient Stoicism. Read and post your thoughts!

  8. Oct 15, 2020 · Heraclitus of Ephesus (l. c. 500 BCE) famously claimed that “life is flux” and, although he seems to have thought this observation would be clear to all, people have continued to resist change from his time to the present day.

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