History of Western Philosophy, Russel: Ch-4 Heraclitus

3/22/2016
- Greek legacy - two opposite trends
   -inventors of all the best
   -science
- Xenophanes, timeline, between Pythagoras and Heraclitus
* Believed all things made of earth and water
* Believed in one God
* Rationalist, opposed mystical Pythagoras
- Heraclitus, 500 BC.
* Doctrines everything is in state of flux.
* Believed fire to be primordial substance
* Five fundamental substance
* Not amiable character.
* Only praised Teutamus.
* Believed in war and strife.
* Mystic and Bacchic
* harmony in opposites, cosmic justice
* 'nothing ever is, everything is becoming'