PP256 Lecture 2: PP 256 Lecture 2
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He made death stories for people, if he didn"t like you your story wasn"t good. Fragments from a book called on nature . Believes nature is formed from one original substance, but believes nature is still a unity. A method for investigation: heraclitus makes a stronger claim. Logos is actually something that exists as a thing in the world. Humans can hear it, and predates human listeners: it communicates objective info. All is one: everything in flux, you don"t step in the same water twice . The river itself has flowing water, so you don"t step in the same water twice, but it"s still the same river. Diachronic vs. synchronic: unity underlies opposites. Harmony is a beautiful unity, but it is composed of difference. The road up the hill and down the hill is the same road. Beginning and the end of a circle. Cold turns to hot and vice versa.
