Heraclitus: The Philosopher of Fire
I have a question, who are the philosophers that you know? Okay, so since you know who and what philosophers are, Does anyone know Heraclitus? It is normal that no one knows him; yet, because if you search the name “Heraclitus” and read the articles, websites, links whatsoever; he is not well-known, those philosophers you mentioned earlier are well-known philosophers. So I’m Greg and today I’ll be introducing you to one of the Western Philosophers of the past centuries, Heraclitus. Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher of the late 6th century B.C.E.; he lived in Ephesus, which was not far from Miletus, the birthplace of philosophy. We know nothing about Heraclitus; the web says that Heraclitus’ biological information is based only on his statements, his sayings, ancient biographies; also some philosophers like Plato thought he was after Parmenides, which was more likely...