Articles related to "Heraclitus"

Heraclitus and Carl Jung both agree that change and conflict are necessary and normal aspects of human existence; to resist change is to resist life.

Heraclitus was among the first pre-Socratic philosophers to propound a materialistic view of the world that influenced other great philosophers and philosophic movements.

How exactly can we explain our perceptions of reality? This is one of the major questions posed by Plato.

The logical deductions of Ancient Greek thinker Parmenides, famous for his only known poem On Nature, in particular, the section called The Way of the Truth.

Dialectical monism, a modern term for an ancient belief, offers a compelling ontology which transcends conventional categorization.

Plato was the first philosopher to offer a systematic philosophic point of view by building on various theories of his time.

Plato's notion of Perfect Form is the precursor to Carl Jung's notion of the Collective Unconscious and Archetype. Both require empirical inquiry into nature of life.

Francis Petrarch and Pico Mirandola, Fathers of the Renaissance, based their conclusions on writings of ancient greek and roman philosophers.

The philosophies of Xenophanes of Colophon, 6th century Greek thinker.