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Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Heraclitus' Critique of Atomism

Heraclitus is the philosopher of change who believes in a reality as becoming that only the appearance, only the phenomenal world is how being partakes of existence at all. And so Heraclitus is this philosopher who then likens the world to fire. Well, Parminides believes that motion is an illusion and that what truly is is not what was or what will be. So it's very clear that Parminides in view of the world, which we might say from which Plato is somewhat influenced and inherits his view of theworld.

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