November 13th, 2008 at 10:31 am » Comments (0)

Plutarch, in his treatise on Isis and Osiris, describes the great peace that the Magi foretold: But the time appointed by fate is coming, ... when the earth becoming plain and ...more »

November 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am » Comments (0)

Henry David Thoreau, an obscure 19th Century classicist and journalist who earned a reputation as a decent translator of Greek works, once reflected on the profound presence of Evil in ...more »

November 7th, 2008 at 9:56 pm » Comments (0)

There is perhaps no message more essential to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra than the whole-hearted affirmation of life as an individual experience. I am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, ... into ...more »

October 25th, 2008 at 10:37 pm » Comments (2)

Continuing our discussion of the correspondences between Heraclitus and the Zarathustras, we have the directive that each one find truth for oneself; that one must never follow. As the old ...more »

October 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm » Comments (0)

Nietzsche's choice of the Iranian (not necessarily Persian) prophet Zarathustra was far from arbitrary, and Nietzsche wanted us to know this. "I have not been asked, as I should have been ...more »

September 8th, 2008 at 1:19 pm » Comments (0)

The wise (sophos) is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. —Heraclitus Zarathashtra worshiped something he called "Lord Wisdom" (Mazda). He called his ...more »

August 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm » Comments (0)

Heraclitus is not merely turning in his grave, he's haunting his inspirations. It appears that an image of a painting that was inspired by Heraclitus' aphorism the way up is the ...more »

August 27th, 2008 at 7:25 am » Comments (1)

This is a continuation of our reflections on character as destiny. We left this discussion having stripped down the self to nothing but her choices, but that was not where I ...more »

August 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm » Comments (0)

Man's character is his fate.—Heraclitus "Ethos anthropoi daimon." What could an old Greek and subject of the Persian Empire have meant by such a declaration? Many modern folk seem inclined to ...more »

June 25th, 2008 at 12:44 pm » Comments (2)

Here's Alan Saunders, host of the Australian program The Philosopher's Zone, reflecting on the influence of Heraclitus on Australian philosophers John Anderson and John Passmore. I find that what Passmore talks ...more »