Heraclitus Logos
...agments of Heraclitus. First was the co-existence of opposites; an example would be about the fish only being able to live in the ocean where as the ocean water is dangerous to humans. Secondly, there was a stronger relationship between the opposites; an example for that would be a road. It runs up and down, but without one, the other would not exist. Thirdly, a sort of relative of identity, meaning that the Logos is everything (all opposites put together); it is a more powerful claim. To Heraclitus, change is the equilibrium in nature. Logos is referred to as fire by Heraclitus; however I do not believe he was literal about this claim. After reading his criticism toward the mythological thinkers and theorists, making a claim that Logos is literally fire seems too imaginary. Fire is eternally changing while outwardly remaining the same; in my opinion he is using fire as a representation of the phenomena of Logos. Secondly, there are not any fragments that directly link fire to the material from which everything arose. “It is death to souls to become water, death to water to become earth, but from earth comes water and from water soul” (A Presocratics Reader, Heraclitus Fragment 71); this is a perfect example of the way opposites work together to form change, which in turn maintains the equilibrium of the univer...