Heraclitus · Philosophy
Heraclitus’ choice of fire as the fundamental reality - the ever-living fire, kindling and going out in measures, that both symbolises the cosmos of ceaseless transformation and serves as the stuff from which all things arise and into which they return.
You learned that Heraclitus made fire the fundamental reality - the ever-living fire, kindling and going out in measures, into which all things transform and from which they arise - because fire is the perfect emblem of a cosmos that exists only by ceaseless, measured change. Explain Heraclitus’ fire in your own words.
Leads to The Stoics (Zeno of Citium).
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