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I guess this would normally belong on /his/, but I'm looking for book recommendations on the subject (unless that's also against the rules, in case I'll just go to /his/).
Anyway, I'm interesting in studying Heraclitus, and more importantly his obsession with the ultimate and upmost fundamental duality, the duality of opposites. Any authors that commentate on this?
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Heraclitus is fucking boring
read Parmenides
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>>8896108
Does he talk about the duality of opposites?
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>>8896087
Just read all there is, it'll take like 20 minutes.
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>>8896132
Ok just read everything now what
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>>8896087
There are a couple of studies on Heraclitus's thought that might be worth turning to. Nietzsche's "Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks" attempts to offer a psychological portrait of Heraclitus (among other Greek figures) as a partial explanation of his work. Eva Brann has a wonderful little study called "The Logos of Heraclitus" that explains the duality of opposites by H.'s discussions of logos as a kind of principle.
And then there's the classicist Seth Benardete's difficult but penetrating essay on Heraclitus's fragments which you can read at the following link:
http://library.newschool.edu/files/findingaids/benardete/SB_03_06_On_Heraclitus.pdf
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>>8896118
heh...
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>>8896307
Thank you very much!
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