Actieprijs Remembering Heraclitus: The Philosopher of Riddles – Richard Geldard

The philosopher Heraclitus was a high-born citizen of Ephesus, who lived in the sixth century BC. He renounced his high station and became increasingly distant from his fellow men, disillusioned with the corruption of their thought.Heraclitus founded no school, left no systematic philosophy or religion, and all we know of his work has come down to us in the most elusive of fragments. Yet he remains central to the long line of thinkers who have traced the tradition of transformative inner inquiry through wes…