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Post by Elizabeth on Nov 1, 2020 6:50:20 GMT
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Post by joustos on Nov 11, 2020 17:25:50 GMT
I enjoyed reading about Miletus [MILETOS] which I admired when I was studying philosophy and, specifically, Miletian Philosophy (6th century B.C.) I also admired Ephesus [EPHESOS], the hometown of the great philosopher Heraclitus [HERAKLEITOS] and of John the Evangelist, who appropriated Heraclitus' LOGOS (the REASON that organizes the Flowing Universe) -- for he said, "Panta rhei" : all things are flowing, like a river, in which you cannot step twice... as you can in stationary water. [As neo-Platonic theologians elaborated, the Joannine Logos (the Son of the Creator) contains the Eide/Exemplars through which all KINDS of things are created.... since nothing, John had said, was ever created which was not created through the Logos.] Incidentally, "logos" is often translated as "reason" because the Stoic philosophers said in effect that the human mind is a logos, the power to think logically, rather than chaotically. The world is a cosmos; man is a microcosm. And, of course, the Stoics investigated some forms of reasoning (the hypothetical syllogism: IF...., THEN....But.....is the case. Hence...…) As Miletus and Ephesus are cities in IONIA, the local philosophers are called the Ionian Philosophers, who lived before Socrates. Hence they are called the Pre-Socratics. Thank you, J.
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Post by jonbain on Nov 11, 2020 21:17:24 GMT
That link had an error, this is the correct link:
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Post by Elizabeth on Nov 11, 2020 21:38:27 GMT
That link had an error, this is the correct link: note
Thanks for the updated link! I don't know why sometimes my links stop working and members have been mentioning that to me recently but at least they get fixed.
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