The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary
by Heraclitus
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Author: HeraclitusEditor: Charles H. Kahn
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1981-09-30
ISBN: 052128645X
Number of pages: 372
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Review: Heraclitus' thought comes to life
Summary: 5 Stars
The dense language and riddling nature of Heracitus' prose has baffled many of us for the past 2500 years. The approach here taken to Heraclitus' fragments is fascinating. The author points out that only by putting the fragments in context with the way the greeks of the fifth century BC reasoned, Heraclitus' thought may come to life to the modern reader. Unlike today's "rational" thought, the greeks of the fifth century BC were not yet enslaved to deductive thinking and causality, but were quite aware of the self-referent nature of things, of the unending web of interelations that makes up Nature and the Universe.
Science exclusively endowed with causality and deduction is very good at finding the hows, but terribly clumsy at finding the whys. This book is definitely recommended to all science people interested not only in learning the hows, but also in understanding the whys.
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