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Heraclitus believed fire was the arche, the fundamental stuff of the world. In choosing an arche Heraclitus followed the Milesians before him – Thales with water, Anaximander with apeiron (lit. boundless or infinite), and Anaximenes with air. Heraclitus also thought the logos (lit. word, discourse, or reason) gave structure to the world.
Heraclitus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος; fl. 1st century AD) was a grammarian and rhetorician, who wrote a Greek commentary on Homer which is still extant. Little is known about Heraclitus. It is generally accepted that he lived sometime around the 1st century AD. [ 1 ]
Stoic who slandered Epicurus: 1st Century BC: Posidonius (of Apamea) (c. 135–51 BC) A philosopher, astronomer, and geographer Crinis (fl. uncertain) Stoic who wrote about logic: Proclus of Mallus (fl. uncertain) Stoic philosopher and writer Diodotus the Stoic (c. 130–59 BC) Stoic teacher of Cicero who lived in Cicero's house Geminus of Rhodes
ἀπάθεια: serenity, peace of mind, such as that achieved by the Stoic sage. aphormê ἀφορμή: aversion, impulse not to act (as a result of ekklisis). Opposite of hormê. apoproêgmena ἀποπροηγμένα: dispreferred things. Morally indifferent but naturally undesirable things, such as illness. Opposite of proêgmena. aretê
Following Heraclitus, Zeno adopted the view that the universe underwent regular cycles of formation and destruction. [ 58 ] The nature of the universe is such that it accomplishes what is right and prevents the opposite, [ 59 ] and is identified with unconditional Fate , [ 60 ] while allowing it the free-will attributed to it. [ 52 ]
A Stoic of virtue, by contrast, would amend one's will to suit the world and remain, in the words of Epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy", [6] thus positing a "completely autonomous" individual will, and at the same time a universe that is "a rigidly ...
Heraclitus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος, romanized: Hērakleitos; fl. c. AD 190–200) was a Christian Biblical scholar and bishop of the late 2nd century. [1]According to Eusebius, and Jerome in De viris illustribus, Heraclitus wrote commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles and/or the Epistles, [a] during the reigns of Commodus and Septimius Severus.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.