Ο δρόμος είναι ο ίδιος. Αναμνήσεις από το απόσπασμα 60 του Ηρακλείτου
Part of : Ελληνικά : φιλολογικό, ιστορικό και λαογραφικό περιοδικό σύγγραμμα ; Vol.45, No.1, 1995, pages 17-31
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«It is the Same Road. Echoes of Heraclitus, fr. 60»
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Taking as a starting-point the position formulated by Jean Pépin in his study «Clément d'Alexandrie, les Catégories d' Aristote et le fragment 60 d'Heraclite» that Clemens Alexandrinus (Strom. Vili 8.24), who was very familiar with Heraclitus, specifies the standard example «ascent/descent», given by the commentators on Aristotle's Categories for the term heteronyma —which is traditionally discussed in commentaries on the first chapter of this treatise, —not with the κλϊμαξ, but with the Heraclitean οδός of fragment Β 60 D-K=33a Markovich, this study seeks: - to trace, in its first part, the use and function of the «ascent/descent» example in the texts of the commentators in general, and not only in commentaries on the Categories, — t h e example being a favourite one with commentators, and one which they used not only when dealing with the heteronyma, but whenever things identical τω υποκειμένω but different τη σχέσει were at issue; in other words, whenever the matter arose as to the point of view from which something can be considered or talked about. Through the commentaries of Elias In Porph. Isag, on the one hand, and of Simplicius and Philoponus In Aristot. Phys., on the other, it is clear that the Heraclitean echo which Pépin identifies in Clemens actually goes back to Aristotle himself {Phys. Ill 3). - to investigate, in the second part, the sources of Galen, where (Deplac. Hippocr. et Plat. IX) an extremely interesting echo is identified of fragment 60, in the discussion of the relation which governs the dialectical methods of division and synthesis, of which Plato makes mention in Phaedr. 265c-e. Both parts of the research lead with a high degree of certainty to the hypothesis that Plato, and Aristotle too, gave fragment 60 of Heraclitus a relativistic interpretation
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