Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments Heraclitus
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He used the term logos to describe the universal Law, or the principle that inherently ordered the cosmos and regulated its phenomena. (75) Even sleepers are at work on the work of the cosmos. And I was just taking more notes other than that. We were interested in doing “versions” or “readings” of Heraclitus rather than “translations” because we wished to test the fragments against modern expression. Heraclitus is said by other sources to have been a doctor, and many of his fragments do speak about the workings of physiology within the larger frame of physics as a thinker who is immersed in ancient cosmology would. The opening is the cosmic fragment par excellence , fr. Diogenes Laertius reports that the work was divided (he does not say by whom) into three sections, one on cosmology, one on politics (and ethics), and one on theology (9.5-6). Although he does not speak in detail of his political views in the extant fragments, Heraclitus seems to reflect an aristocratic disdain for the masses and favor the rule of a few wise men, for instance when he recommends that his fellow-citizens . A Hangover of Cosmic Proportions: OF 222 and its Mythical Context 97. Rosa García-Gasco Villarrubia 18. Since 1999 Heraclitean studies have benefitted greatly from Serge Mouraviev's magnum opus, Heraclitea, which now reaches its eleventh volume (and its ultimate goal) with a 'full scale reconstruction' of Heraclitus' lost book, correcting and completing both the first edition (166 items, Moscow, 1991) and the more recent version published in 2009 (199 items), presented in 2006 at the Symposium Heracliteum . -Heraclitus, Cosmic Fragments 1 and 32. And I went to the library to get another couple sources (the one I wanted's checked out-- Heraclitus: the Cosmic Fragments, anybody?). Index of Fragments; Note on the Second Impression; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: I. All these topics are treated in the extant fragments of Heraclitus, though it is often difficult to see what boundaries the work might have drawn between them, since Heraclitus seems to see deep interconnections between science, human affairs, and theology. Heraclitus Fragment B 52 DK (on OF 242) 103. At the level of either cosmic bodies (in which sea turns into fiery storms on the one hand and earth on the other) or domestic activities (in which, for instance, water boils out of a pot), there is constant flux among opposites.