Heraclitus: you can't step in the same river twice

All is flux - panta rhei. All is one. All is fire. War is the father of all. Nietzsche's favorite philosopher. Heraclitus of Ephesus was the philosopher of change, the foil of Parmenides, misunderstood by Aristotle and loved by many modern philosophers since he represents a different road from Plato and Socrates... at least ostensibly.

Dr. Johnson teaches philosophy at Georgia Tech. He is the author of Paradox at Play: Metaphor in Meister Eckhart's Sermons by Catholic University of America Press. It includes many sermons never before translated into English.

Meister Eckhart, _Paradox at Play_

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[akimbocladis]

An early idea of entropy almost, pretty neat

[sheenapearse]

A wonderful presentation of a continuum of deeply profound philosophy / theology / worldview that is woven through the history of Western metaphysics - correctly identified, I believe, as “ Paradox at Play” . Well said !

[Nakfourium]

14:33 is a play between Kant and Hegel in the sense of Epistemology Vs Ontology. If the humans always fail to comprehend the Logos, then it is a measurement problem, our faculties fail. But if the Logos in itself is incomprehensible then the problem is Ontological: reality itself is incomplete. It seems like we can link Heraclitus to Quantum physics uncertainty principle, where Heisenberg makes the point that it's not that we don't have the proper measurement technique to record both Velocity and Position of a particle, but that this information doesn't exist in reality in itself!

What do you think

[thebaryonacousticoscillati]

Always been a fan of Pyrrho of Elis, myself. Ataraxia is the goal of philosophy. Can't get much more "Buddhist" than that, methinks!

[Adeeba_Zamaan]

@ClintJohnson Well, here you are again discussing one of my favorite subjects! I've always said we can't step in the same river once. In fact, I'd say we can't even step in the same river. And then there's Xeno. Driving from St Louis SW on 44 we used to see signs: Zeno's Steakhouse 100 miles. Zeno's Steakhouse 50 miles. It seemed like we'd never get there! AND in third place, Parmenides! (she said densely). (Philosopher Swifties) (Tom, not Taylor.)

[Nakfourium]

Great lecture! What do you think of Meister Eckhart vs Heraclitus lecture?

[greidem]

Is there a self to be sought if all is one and detachment and nirvana is the name of the game? Is that the self? Did Nietzsche ever achieve nirvana?