Heraclitus
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Essay title: Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is probably the most significant philosopher of ancient Greek until Socrates and Plato; this is probably because he postulated a model of nature and the universe which created the foundation for all other speculation concerning physics and metaphysics. Heraclitus, according to early biographers, was melancholic and cryptic that earned him the nicknames such as "The Weeping Philosopher" and the "The Riddler". Every time we walk into a science, economics, or political science course, to some extent everything we do to that class has something to do with the speculations of Heraclitus- that the universe is constantly changing and that there is a reason on these changes which he called as the Logos. Because of these facts, he became one of my primary interests among the philosophers. ___________________________
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He was known of having introduced new perspectives in Greek thought, but the passages in the book he had written are said to be tremendously hard to