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Heraclitus' Legacy

One line of thought, from a riddling philosopher of Ephesus to Nietzsche and Hegel. Heraclitus said the world is ever-living fire and that war is the father of all. Plato began as his follower, Aristotle answered Plato, and Nietzsche and Hegel each went back to Heraclitus and started again. These are the books and the pages where that happens. Some are open to read now. The rest are in the press, and each opens when readers press it.

Heraclitus: Fragments — interlinear Greek–English · Moreelse, Heraclitus (c. 1630)
Heraclitus: Fragments
Heraclitus of Ephesus
c. 500 BC · the river, the fire, war the father of all, time a child at play
read it now
The Orphic Hymns — Odilon Redon, Orpheus (c. 1903–10): the singer's head resting on his lyre
The Orphic Hymns
the Orphic tradition
Dionysus and the mysteries Heraclitus mocked and Plato borrowed
read it now
The Orphic Gold Tablets: a gold leaf pressed with the dead man's answer, Γᾶς υἱός ἐμι καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος, I am a son of Earth and starry Sky
The Orphic Gold Tablets
the Orphic tradition
the passwords of the Orphic dead
read it now
Plato's Symposium — interlinear Greek–English
Symposium
Plato · Συμπόσιον
Alcibiades calls Socrates a Silenus with gods inside
read it now
Plato's Phaedrus — interlinear Greek–English
Phaedrus
Plato
the winged soul and the madness that comes from the gods
read it now
ΑΑΛΚΙΒΙΑΔΗΣ
Alcibiades
Plato
know thyself · the eye in the eye · the lore of Zoroaster
in the press · help press it
ΠΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ
The Republic: the Cave
Plato
the Cave, 514a–517a · the divided line · the noble lie
read the opening
Plato, Timaeus, interlinear Greek to English · Raphael, The School of Athens (1509–1511): Plato carrying the Timaeus
Timaeus
Plato · Τίμαιος
the craftsman who made the world
read it now
ΕΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ Ζ
The Seventh Letter
Plato
Plato's own story · the spark that cannot be written down, 341c–d
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ΗΗΘΙΚΑ ΝΙΚΟΜΑΧΕΙΑ
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Aristotle: the good as that for the sake of which · politics the master art
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ΨΠΕΡΙ ΨΥΧΗΣ
On the Soul
Aristotle · De Anima
Aristotle: what a soul is
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ΠΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΥΣ
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
the fire-thief bound, and every art he gave
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HHEGEL
Phenomenology of Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel
1807 · the true is the whole · master and slave
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NNIETZSCHE
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
1872 · Apollo and Dionysus · the wisdom of Silenus · myth
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NNIETZSCHE
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Friedrich Nietzsche
1873 · Nietzsche's Heraclitus: I see nothing but becoming
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