PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heraclitus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1104
• Professor: Jeffrey Reid

Document Summary

Predicted an olive harvest, got rich, went back to philosophy. Is interested in nature (cosmos/universe), because it relies on logic and reason. Logos: reasoned discourse, doesn"t rely on supernatural. Heraclites: the obscure, the wonder in the change of permanence. You can never step into the same river twice . The only thing that is constant is change . Analogy of the bow (bios): the tension between life and death. 2 types of change: transformation: identity vs difference, generation: being vs not-being. Arch : fire, one of the fundamental principles: dangerous (draught) vs beneficial (warmth, acts in opposition between elements.