About this episode
This episode focuses on the life and ideas of the philosopher Heraclitus, exploring his concepts of flux, fire, and the logos.
For the next month or so, I’m going to highlight different early Greek Philosophers on the podcast and in my Substack articles. Last year, I started reading Plato’s dialogues and realized that I didn’t know the philosophers or their ideas that he was referencing. I stopped reading the dialogues in order to get to know these Greek Philosophers. In this episode, I cover Heraclitus, a philosopher famous for his ideas on flux, fire, and the logos. While we don’t have his complete work On Nature , we do have fragments that provide an understanding of his main ideas. This will be a two-part episode with this first one focusing on the life and ideas of Heraclitus and the second one focusing on Heraclitus’ idea of the logos. Here are the books I referenced for this podcast episode: * Early Greek Philosophy - Translation by Jonathan Barnes - Penguin Classics * Heraclitus Fragments - Translation by Brooks Haxton - Penguin Classics * The First Philosophers - Translation by Robin Waterfield - Oxford World’s Classics * Heraclitean Fire - Erwin Chargaff - Book 20 in 2017 * Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogene Laertius - Vol 2 of Loeb. * Major Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Oxford…
People in this episode
Host: Erik Rostad
Topics covered
- Greek Philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Plato
- Philosophical Ideas
- Flux
- Logos
Keywords
- Heraclitus
- Greek Philosophy
- Plato
- flux
- logos
- philosophers
- philosophical ideas
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: On Nature, Early Greek Philosophy - Translation by Jonathan Barnes, Heraclitus Fragments - Translation by Brooks Haxton, The First Philosophers - Translation by Robin Waterfield, Heraclitean Fire - Erwin Chargaff, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogene Laertius, Major Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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