The politics of logos: reflections on the political thought of Heraclitus of Ephesus

Authors

  • Sebastián Aguilera Quiroz Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Abstract

Most of the studies on Heraclitus have not given real importanceto certain evident matters on the fragments of the Ephesian, especially: thePolitics. In this study we propose a new lecture of the fragments that allows usto reconstruct the axes by which the political thought of Heraclitus should havemoved. To gather history and philosophy, we can see in Heraclitus's thought howthe politics is nurturing by the reflections that the philosopher made about his own historical experience and how those thoughts, within their political sense,can be channeled into the philosophical "system" by the specific notion of logos.    

Keywords:

Heraclitus, Politics, logos, nómos, Law, noûs, Community