To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approa...
Heraclitus believes that there is one single aspect of reality that is the cause of the short-lived stability of things and that is the uniting source of all things, fire. Fire is the source of all things. ... The main substance of reality, fire, is almost a contradictory aspect of nature in the fact that it can be the source of things, yet at the same time it can destroy these things. ...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...
