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Recovering Heraclitus: Neglected Religious, Ethical and Political Themes in the Work of a Pre-Socratic Thinker.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Recovering Heraclitus: Neglected Religious, Ethical and Political Themes in the Work of a Pre-Socratic Thinker./
Author:	Wood, Thomas Joseph.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13880158
ISBN:	9781088381502

Recovering Heraclitus: Neglected Religious, Ethical and Political Themes in the Work of a Pre-Socratic Thinker.
Wood, Thomas Joseph.

Recovering Heraclitus: Neglected Religious, Ethical and Political Themes in the Work of a Pre-Socratic Thinker. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 191 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The early Greek philosopher Heraclitus writes in a puzzling, cryptic way which makes his ideas difficult to work out. Many commentators are content to make some broad statements about his place in the development of philosophy as a natural philosopher or metaphysician; statements for which there is ample support. In this essay, I argue that we can use Heraclitus' biography and his historical context to recover his ideas about religion, ethics, and politics. I believe that this method reveals a Heraclitus who was grasping for an early sort of political theory and ethics in response to the turbulent period in which he lived. I also believe that the religious practices at Eleusis and Delphi inspired Heraclitus to express his ideas in the cryptic way that he does. In short, I argue that he was borrowing the oracular ambiguity of Delphi to make his readers metaphorical "initiates" into his ideas in a way that is modeled on the Eleusinian Mysteries.Further, I examine the way in which Heraclitus ideas arguably influenced later thinkers from Democritus to the Stoics. Each taking this or that aspect of Heraclitus' thought to shape their own ideas about value and/or politics.

ISBN: 9781088381502Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Eleusis

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