What was Heraclitus really getting at?

What was Heraclitus really getting at?

Who cares? He was a pseud.

The Logos

that painting always looks like hes pulling a really hard crank om a wheel

The behavior of nature (the Logos)
The concept of objects (as in the river quote is an answer to the Ship of Thesius quote)
Moral value (Hades and all the other gods being equal and the same)
Wisdom and knowledge ("eyes are bad witness to men with barbarous souls")
etc.

I wish we had more of his work

It's all fire man. He was right.

Oh really? How?

Reality as a whole is both mutable yet static (just like the fire)

the tao

the nothing itself nothings

Being

>What was Heraclitus really getting at?

Dynamic unity

You're always being yourself.

What if I told you Heraclitus was an alchemist?

JUST be yourself.

>keen sensitivity to water; founds his arche in water as a first principle
>diverts river so that army can march through
>falls into a water-well
What did Thales mean by this?

The Presocratics in general are occult as hell. Its clear to anyone who knows what to look for.

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>listen to a two hour interview with world renowned expert on heraclitus
>last question:
>"What can we really say about his philosophy? What IS logos then?"
>reply:
>"Dunno man, whatever you want it to be basically, man. We really don't know."

nigga what

How do people not understand logos

heraclitus understood what composes each thing is not definitive, each thing is not complete... he is one of the masters of flux

Also he gives my dysthmic, sadistic and alienated worldview hope

He was the most oriental of all of the western philosophers.

this

...

He would have loved drone music

Not really

Tao = Logos
Te = logos

Even the ancients, who had his complete works, called him Heraclitus "the obscure". We only have only fragments, so we'll never know for certain. This is about as close as you'll get though:
The logos figure very prominently in his writing.

Plotinus and his followers were, imo.