Fw: "one cannot step into the same river" twice
H. C. Covington (ach1@sprynet.com)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 04:43:41 -0600
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 4:18 AM
Subject: +ACI-one cannot step into the same river+ACI- twice
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Today's Honorary HPN Member is Heraclitus (c.544-480 BC), the philosopher
born in Ephesus, a Greek colony in Asia Minor.
Called the +ACI-obscure philosopher+ACI- because of his cryptic style, he thought
that the essential
substance that unites all things is fire and world order was an
+ACI-ever-living fire kindling in measures and being extinguished by measures.+ACI-
He taught that all things are in eternal flux, because of opposites and
that 'reality' becomes 'harmony'.
His doctrine of eternal change in summarized in the assertion that +ACI-one
cannot step into the same river+ACI- -
the river is never +ACI-the same+ACI- from one moment to the next, and for
Heraclitus the first principle of the world is not +ACI-being+ACI- but +ACI-becoming.+ACI-
Change, change, change...............
H. C. Sonny Covington +AEA- I CAN+ACE- America
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Tom's reply:
For +ACo-honorary HPN members, may I also suggest Socrates, Aesop, Thucidides,
Epictitis, Sappho, and (because they wrote in Greek) Lucretius and Marcus
Aurealius. Could HPN be an Internet incarnation of Plato's Academy?
--Tom, Penguin classicist and Philosopher-Peer
PS: The White House sex scandal de jure plays a lot like Juvenal's Sixteen
Satires. +ACI-The more things change the more they remain the same.+ACI-