TITLE: Fragments AUTHOR: Heraclitus TRANSLATOR: Brooks Haxton EDITION: Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 9780142437650 FORMAT: ebook DATE PUBLISHED: 2003 (original published in 500 B.C) __________________________________ DESCRIPTION: "In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred year...
His thoughts deserve far more attention than are often accorded him. This edition (downloadable for free!) is accompanied by the original Greek, and brief commentary. While on a few the commentary is lacking very slightly, it's overall an excellent effort. Of interest to philosophers and students of...
Probably Kirk's most solid piece of work.
An interesting pairing of mins, indeed. The Heroclitean fragments were more philosophical and oblique, whereas Diogenes' words came across as (often amusing) aphorisms. Some of my favorites from each:Heraclitus6Knowledge is not intelligence.24History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and...
Guillermo wrote this guy's name on our pizza box and said I had to read his book. I guess some people think the beginning of the gospel of John is based on the first few of these fragments, which could be true, whatever, but John's version seems a little stranger and more beautiful and more coheren...
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