[lit-ideas] Geary on Heraclitus
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:25:35 EDT
In a message dated 6/26/2009 3:15:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I'm not a philosopher. I sometimes wonder why heat seeks out
cold, but I soon get bored and start whittling. No service to mankind
there.
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Heraclitus found it useful to _write_ down his thoughts.
It _can_ be boring *to you* but not to *posterity*.
Heraclitus had few friends, and we cannot say his philosophy was motivated
by his love of socialising.
But his theory of how heat seeks out cold is an eternal truth, of
tautological conceptual epistemic status for which we will also revere him.
He also thought that cold seeks out heat.
Indeed, he thought -- and this led to the Atomism of Democritus that a cold
atom and a hot atom may combine in a medium-temp molecule.
It's the 'why', not the 'how' or the 'what' that constitutes a true
philosopher.
JLS
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