PHIL 232 Lecture Notes - Monism, Atomism
8 Oct 2013
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Flourished around 500 bc in turkish coast of greece same coast is milesians. Independent thinker not part of a school (milesians, pluralists, atomists, etc. : school refers to groups with similar thoughts and practices, there was no one else like heraclitus. Known even in ancient times as the obscure one : aphoristic style, appeared to contradict himself, some doctrines appear incoherent and contradictory even though that wasn t his intention, bullet-point type of arguments. One relatively certain point: he reacted negatively to the. Milesians: for them, the real is fixed and permanent. Change was an alteration of basic, underlying, material stuff that in its own nature is unchanging: heraclitus inverted this order: change is what is real, and permanence is only apparent. He was enormously influential: plato agreed that material world undergoes constant change. If it s always changing, the world cannot be truly known. Therefore the material world is unreal and the real, knowable world is immaterial.
