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Heraclitus was a pseud and did not discover any truth more profound than Homer or Plato
No wonder Nietzsche's ubermensch sucks balls, he based it on Heraclitus. No wonder his othet stuff on morality is based, he stole them from Homer

Both Nietzsche and Heraclitus were incels and weak pariahs, but at least Nietzsche was a far superior thinker to this dumb pseud who died after covering himself with shit lmoa

>>22334885
>shut the fuck up
Ok, since you asked nicely, I’ll keep talking.

What would Heraclitus have thought about the Tao Te Ching?

Ever noticed they call Heraclitus "the darkest of all philosophers", yet always portray him as white man? Think about that.
Think about that.

If western philosophy followed his path instead of Plato’s, we would’ve come a lot farther.

posting this because i honestly don't see how my beliefs can progress beyond this point, except by replacing the notion of a "category" with something more neuroscientifically valid. I'm too lazy to edit this and make it readable so i am just posting the raw rant I wrote down a few days ago. maybe someone will care enough to read it all idk.

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1. Nothing can be known with full certainty, because you can never know any one thing you perceive perfectly (none of your ideas will ever correspond to reality, since the idea of reality is supposed to be above perception).
2. The question of what you should cannot be reasoned about or argued about. Every man has what he should do written on his heart.
3. Time is an immediate perception that can be perceived but not defined, and talking about time as we understand it is talking abou the perception (more accurately, the condition of perception, though it also is a perception, since the conditions for perception are always perceived along with everything) and nothing else.
4. Categories created by the brain are also immediate perceptions, and cannot be any further understood insofar as they are immediate perceptions, but only insofar as their cause can be investigated by science. Being, Substance, and Essence, all come from attempting to understand mental categories, which are neuronal constructs, but since the mental categories are only perception, they correspond to nothing insofar as they are perceptions, but instead are merely the condition of perception.

>>20728430
*ahem*
A FUCKING ASTRONOMER
>lmaoing at you so hard

Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger claim to be deeply moved by him, but I’ve read all his fragments and I got to say I’m disappointed... I like aphoristic works—but...am I missing something...? Even in aphoristic work I don’t care for like the Tao Te Ching, I can still see why people are attracted to it, but with Heraclitus I’m lost... most of them nonsensical or scientifically wrong, or at the very least: not insightful.

>>20338145
Heraklitos

>>20152855
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Post your favorites aphorisms of Heraklitos.

start AND end with the greeks

>>19574390
This.

What are some good books to get started in Set Theory?

>>18892968
The world is ending but its taking forever.

>>18799156
I dunno but I come from a cinephile background and I started getting sick of all the garbage & uninteresting same old films so I just started to get into books instead (mainly philosophy). I'm only starting tho

philosophy starts and ends with heraclitus, all other great philosophers only repeat what he says.

>>18276830
It seems clear that as the empire breaks down, so does any organized social being. Thus decadence is born, in this era we call it post-structuralism. I tell you now, reader, that where any art in this day expresses any notion of cohesive social being, it would be scorned as tyrannical and evil. Look only a few decades back and one can see many fine examples of high art striving for the apotheosis (see the films of George Cukor). Now there is but egoistic self propaganda, as if it were public self modulation and displaying of one's inner being (see anything cosmopolitan post the year 2015).

>>18223638
I concur; in an alternate reality Heraklitos, as a millennial triphero. would have recognized, and partook in, the intergenerational, and the interpersonal, syncord that is concentrated in this website, bearing his own syntheotic record to witness.

>>17934301
>at Jesus' College
>Jesus'

nice try larper

I'm reading History and Politics at the University of York, going to Durham (St. John's) for my postgraduate next year. Reading a collection of Montaigne's Essays and starting Intruder in the Dust by Faulkner this afternoon.

Does quantum mechanics vindicate Heraclitus?

>>17734068
Funnily enough it has been known for quite some times. I for one am glad that we can put behind us the errors of Platonism and Aristotelianism.

The passing of [Anon] came as a surprise to all of us. Someone who seemed firm and able in most matters truly was not. His refusal of others' help or advances were taken as strength when in reality he was full of a sorrow no one could see. Let us all learn from his memory, as a man seemingly unbroken, that we all have cracks that need mending as well. Let [Anon]'s life be a lession to us: strength is found in finding help, not denying it. And let us pray that his weary soul may finally find rest in the eternal glory of God the Father, Lord of Mercy and Forgiveness, Consoler of those Sorrowful in Heart. Amen.