Joanna is obviously a serious student of the pre-Socratics. I am not; I
haven't properly studied them in 20 years, and I don't even boast more than
a superficial acquaintaince with ancient philosophy generally. I did a
junior paper on Aristotle's ethics in college (in 1978!) with Michael
Frede--hey, why not the best?; had classes on Ari and Plato back then;
afterwards, I taught the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics a couple of
times to into students, but that's it. So don't listen to me; I just have a
few half-remembered bits of misinformation. --jks
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>Not actually, as I see it. To claim that a given trajectory is the same,
>whatever end you view it from, does not contradict the idea that any
>flowing water you step into will not hang around long enough for you to
>step into it twice ("On those who step in the same river, different and
>different waters flow . . " (fragment 12); "In the same river we both step
>and do not step, we are and we are not" (frag. 49a); . . . .
>
>cheers
>Joanna
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>www.overlookhouse.com
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