HERACLITUS (dec 31, 540 BC – jan 31, 480 BC)
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Heraclitus lived in the city of Ephesus, considered the cradle of philosophy. Apparently he came from an aristocratic family. He used the nickname "the dark one" because of the enigmatic character of his style. He was against the democracy of Athens and was part of a group sympathetic to the Persian king Darius I the Great.Greek philosopher oriented towards the search for a common constitutive principle of plurality in the beings that inhabited nature.
He criticizes his predecessors and contemporaries and affirmed the existence of a word of eternal character, "logos", a word that according to his knowledge meant that all things are one founded his theory, that opposites were necessary for life and that they were united in a system of exchange.
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dec 31, 540 BC
jan 31, 480 BC
~ 60 years