This essay takes a simply stated but difficult to parse sentence from Heraclitus and works at extracting its meanings. For the Greeks, nature (phusis) is not a nature that pre-exists humans, but instead a widespread character of things, as applicable to a city as to a mountain. And even if the world becomes ever more visible to us, the nature of things is not on the surface, as phusis hides.
Heraclitus Fragment B123 DK
G. Most
2016
Abstract
This essay takes a simply stated but difficult to parse sentence from Heraclitus and works at extracting its meanings. For the Greeks, nature (phusis) is not a nature that pre-exists humans, but instead a widespread character of things, as applicable to a city as to a mountain. And even if the world becomes ever more visible to us, the nature of things is not on the surface, as phusis hides.File in questo prodotto:
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