Heraclitus_-_Permanent_Flux

Heraclitus - Permanent Flux Permanent Flux It is said that every great journey begins with one step. This is not true. A more accurate saying would be, “every great journey begins with the idea of the journey”, thus leading to the idea of the step, and so on. The steps will surly follow an idea, but nevertheless the ideas will always precede any action. Once one gets an idea in one’s head, one must either forget it, or act on it. Such as the case with the first Philosophers, known now as the Pre-Socratics. The Pre-Socratics, which started around 600 B.C.E., formed ideas of a journey to enlightenment of their society. Instead of dismissing this idea, they thrived off it and took the first steps toward teaching an entirely new way of thinking. These first thinkers of philosophy, which has an appropriate meaning of the love of wisdom, wanted to know more about life, earth, the stars and most importantly, the “being” of it all. Though not the first of the original thinkers, Heraclitus of Ephesus, was among this group of lovers of wisdom and revolutionized the world with his idea of “being” and allowed being, constant, one, world, heraclitus, fire, idea, stuff, change, pre-socratics, philosophers, first, existence, flux, elements, philosophy, permanent, new, natural, journey, however, while, true, therefore, steps, simply, questions, never, meaning, look, ideas, heraclitus’, element, earth, word