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30 Philosophers
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Philosophy
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born circa 535 BCE
Heraclitus
circa 535 to 475 BCE, likely aged about 60 years old
- "No one steps in the same river twice."
- Weeping or "Dark" Philosopher
Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Heraclitus lived around 500 BCE in the Greek city of Ephesus, and he saw something most people miss: nothing ever truly stands still. Rivers flow. Fires burn. Lives change. Even the things that look solid are only holding their shape for a while. Heraclitus wrote in sharp, almost cryptic fragments, not essays, which earned him the nickname the Dark Philosopher. But beneath the mystery was a clear idea—reality is not made of fixed things, but of processes in motion. Order still exists, he argued, but it comes from tension and balance, not permanence. Two and a half millennia later, physics quietly agrees.
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Critical Thinking
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“…allegories…lay hold of the hidden sense which is concealed beneath the words”
- Philo of Alexandria
- circa 20 CE
Allegorical Interpretation
Translated quote by Philo of Alexandria.
An allegory is a literary technique in which the writing represents deeper meanings than the words might initially imply. Allegorical interpretation is the process of understanding the symbolic meaning behind a text or story. It allows for a deeper understanding embedded in literature, art, and movies.
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Was Einstein’s Theory of Relativity ever irrational?
Idea of Ideas
In the Idea of Ideas, all discoveries begin as irrational, not wrong, just untested. Einstein’s general relativity was once an unverified challenge to Newton’s gravity. Only after the 1919 eclipse confirmed its predictions did it become empirical truth. That transition, from irrational to empirical, is how real knowledge grows and finds a place within rational frameworks of the Grand Rational Framework.
30 Philosophers: A New Look at Timeless Ideas
Immerse yourself in knowledge, not snippets. Pure inspiration from cover to cover. Dive deeper than headlines and memes and explore the minds of the greatest thinkers.
The story of
humanity’s 80 BEST IDEAS,
and the 30 GIANTS
behind them!
humanity’s 80 BEST IDEAS,
and the 30 GIANTS
behind them!
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The Idea of Ideas
A new look at epistemology. First published in "30 Philosophers."
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