"... Giordano Bruno might have been a pantheist. A pantheist believes that God is everywhere, even in that speck of a fly you see there. You can imagine how satisfying that is—being everywhere is like being nowhere. Well, for Hegel it wasn’t God but the State that had to be everywhere; therefore, he was a Fascist.”
“But didn’t he live more than a hundred years ago?”
“So? Joan of Arc, also a Fascist of the highest order. Fascists have always existed. Since the age of . . . since the age of God. Take God—a Fascist.”
Umberto Eco in the
New Yorker
posted by matteo
on Feb 28, 2005 -
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Heraclitus of
Ephesus, sometimes called
Heraclitus the Obscure: We only know him through 100 gnomic quotes and aphorisms
--I loves me some gnomic aphorisms!--all direct from or inferred in the comments of various authors of Classical literature, of which
no one steps into the same river twice is the best known.
Mark Cohen,
J. H. Lesher and
Cynthia Freeman provide excellent introductions.
John Burnett's 1920 translation is another academic standard. Jonathan Barnes. whose Penguin Classic
The Early Greek Philosophers has the best contemporary translation, wrote
Heraclitus attracts exegetes as an empty jampot wasps; and each new wasp discerns traces of his own favourite flavour. Here are the jampots of
Friedrich Nietzsche,
Bertrand Russell and
Martin Heidegger. And here, in passing, is a taste of the jampot of
Jorge Luis Borges. Heraclitus coined the word
enantiodromia.
John William Corrington's
Logos, Lex, And Law is also of interest. Heraclitus figures strongly in the
Archetypal Psychology of Carl Jung and
James Hillman, the latter especially in his discussion of the
Soul.
posted by y2karl
on Sep 11, 2003 -
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