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Textos presocráticos

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Textos presocráticos de Heráclito, Parménides y Empédocles.

187 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

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Heraclitus

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Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος,c.535 – c.475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddled and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher".

Heraclitus was famous for his insistence on ever-present change as being the fundamental essence of the universe, as stated in the famous saying, "No man ever steps in the same river twice". This position was complemented by his stark commitment to a unity of opposites in the world,stating that "the path up and down are one and the same". Through these doctrines Heraclitus characterized all existing entities by pairs of contrary properties, whereby no entity may ever occupy a single state at a single time. This, along with his cryptic utterance that "all entities come to be in accordance with this Logos" (literally, "word", "reason", or "account") has been the subject of numerous interpretations.

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August 18, 2019
Los filósofos presocráticos salieron un poco para atrás en la historia. Después de todo, aunque tenían pensamientos muy variados, todos caen en el mismo saco: son presocráticos. No tuvieron la fortuna de aprender de Sócrates, así que anda uno a saber qué cabezas de pescado pensaban.
Un poco injusto, ya que sus ideas, por sencillas o no del todo desarrolladas que estuvieran, resultaron ser muy influyentes en el futuro. En particular el concepto del ser y la existencia en el tiempo de Heráclito y Parménides. Empédocles era algo más ecléctico, pensando en el universo como una conjugación de elementos y un fuerte concepto de encarnación. Por muy influenciados en Sócrates que estuviera, la Iglesia cristiana terminaría rumiando temas así por siglos más tarde.
Los textos presentados son los fragmentos que sobreviven de sus trabajos. Es lo que hay, por lo que deben servir para hacerse una idea de cómo pensaban.
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May 12, 2026
Conocimiento orgánico basado puramente en la observación y la razón individual. Filosofía que elogia el pensamiento propio y su originalidad, entre otras verdades esenciales.
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