Heraclitus contribution to philosophy

Philosophy

Heraclitus was a great Greek philosopher who lived at the end of the sixth century B.C., Heraclitus criticizes his predecessors and contemporaries, and affirmed the existence of a word of eternal character, logos, word that according to his knowledge meant that all things are one, in a certain sense.

He believed that opposites are necessary for daily life, but that they were unified in a system of balanced exchanges. For him, the world itself consisted of an exchange of elements similar to law, which was symbolized by fire, which is why the world should not be identified with any particular substance, but rather with a continuous process governed by a law of change.

This law had underlying laws of nature that manifested themselves as a moral law for human beings. Heraclitus was the first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search of metaphysicalfoundations and moral applications.