@philosophyminis: You have changed. From the day that you were born, as well as from the moment you started to watch this video, you have changed. There is nothing about you or the world which stays still. The universe is constantly moving and you will never be able to do the same thing, in the same way, ever again. This is how the #philosopher #Heraclitus saw the world, and he argued that all things in the universe are in ‘flux.’ Nothing stands still, but everything is moving and changing. There is no ‘being,’ only ‘ #becoming .’ Our bodies are constantly metabolizing, the world is always spinning, and light is bouncing off everything. This raises two problems. The first is to do with #identity. What does it mean to say that my wife is the same wife today as she was yesterday? And the second problem is to do with repeatability. Heraclitus famously wrote that we can never step into the same river twice, because neither you nor the river are the same. If this is true, we can never do anything again. To resolve this, Heraclitus used the analogy of fire. A #fire is constantly flickering and dancing, yet we still say it's a fire. The fire, like the universe, takes form when viewed as a changing totality. He argued that the only things not subject to change and flux are the processes of the universe, which he calls the ‘ #logos .’ But there is also an #existential element to Heraclitus, because we will never relive this exact moment ever again. Who you are today and what you're doing right now will never in the history of the universe happen again.

Jonny Thomson

Open In TikTok:

Region: GB

Monday 16 December 2024 14:46:42 GMT