Heraclitus · Philosophy

Everything Flows

Heraclitus’ vision that reality is not a collection of stable things but a ceaseless process of change - you cannot step into the same river twice, because the river, like all things, is always becoming something else.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Heraclitus held reality to be a ceaseless flux - that everything is always changing, that what looks stable is really a flowing process, and that the river you step into is never the same river twice. Explain his doctrine of flux in your own words.

Leads to Parmenides.

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