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On Heraclitus’s "Xynos Logos"

Posted on:2015-09-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W B GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330452456452Subject:Foreign philosophy
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About the “xynos logos” of Heraclitus,empiricist,rationalist,mystic and structuralistgive their interpretations from diferent views:empiricist insist that it refers to his ownwords;rationalist object or principle that doesnot rely on individual;mystic wordsalthough said by the Gold in the end transferred by Heraclitus to the mass;structuralistsome structure.We gained a great deal of enlightenment from these views,but because oftheir stance or not grounded on the whole of Heraclitus’s doctrines,but attached to severalfragments,their views are all one-sided.By analysing fragments include “logos”,we sum up nine characters of Heraclitus’s“xynos logos”:A,internal;B,universal;C,all depend on it;D,everyone lives withit;E,hidden;F,holy;G,in accordance with dialectical thingking;H,no diferentiationbetween subject and object;I, comparing with the change of Nature,the way peoplethinking about Naure is thougt more important.Based on these characters,turning topredecessors at the same time,I advance the view of understanding “xyonoslogos”as“dynamic structure”.Under this view,the obscurity of expression ofHeraclitus,the doctrine of “the world comes from fire”,“everything flows”and“unity ofopposites”,all can be illustrated reasonably.This fact strenthen the persuation ofunderstanding the “xynos logos”as “dynamic structure”.
Keywords/Search Tags:Heraclitus, xynos logos, dynamic structure
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