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This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments
of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world
as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk
discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in
passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here
considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, Professor
Kirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies, and in his
critical work he attached particular importance to the context in
which each fragment is set. To each he gives a selective apparatus,
a literal translation and and an extended commentary in which
problems of textual and philosophical criticism are discussed.
Ancient accounts of Heraclitus were inadequate and misleading, and
as Kirk wrote, understanding was often hindered by excessive
dogmatism and a selective use of the fragments. Professor Kirk's
method is critical and objective, and his 1954 work marks a
significant advance in the study of Presocratic thought.
In this study, the disconnected fragments of the writings of Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher (ca. 500 B.C.), are translated, and the pattern of his thought is reconstructed by the author.
Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century
b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of
Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that
everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book,
On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and
touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been
lost to history--but its surviving fragments have for thousands of
years tantalized our greatest thinkers, from Montaigne to
Nietzsche, Heidegger to Jung. Now, acclaimed poet Brooks Haxton
presents a powerful free-verse translation of all 130 surviving
fragments of the teachings of Heraclitus, with the ancient Greek
originals beautifully reproduced en face. For more than seventy
years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature
in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Fragments (Paperback)
Heraclitus; Translated by G. T. W. Patrick
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Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who
lived a lonely life earning him the moniker of the "Weeping
Philosopher." His principal philosophy is embodied in the following
statement "No man ever steps in the same river twice," in other
words man faces an ever-present change in the universe. He believed
in the unity of opposites, stating that "the path up and down are
one and the same." According to Diogenes, Heraclitus worked on "a
continuous treatise On Nature," which "was divided into three
discourses, one on the universe, another on politics, and a third
on theology." Only fragments of this work remain today many of
which are quoted from other authors. Those fragments are presented
here in a translation and with critical commentary by G. T. W.
Patrick.
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