Textos presocráticos

by Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles

Acostumbramos a considerar a Platón y Aristóteles como la base y en comienzo de la filosofía griega, olvidando que nada se genera de la nada, y que antes de ellos un puñado de geniales pensadores estructuró lo que luego sería el pensamiento occidental.
Con el título de Textos presocráticos presentamos aquí la totalidad de los fragmentos conservados de Heráclito, Parménides y Empédocles, según la edición de Diels-Kranz, que comprende una de las mayores colecciones de testimonios y textos de la antigüedad.

Genres: Philosophy, Classics

126 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

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.