Sept. 9th 2007: APERION: Reading the Presocratics through a half distilled head cold.
The fragmented thoughts of philosopher physicists. Piercing though mythology, yet holding it up all the same. What was their pre-articulate purpose? To birth a new way of thought, to introduce a new vision. But more precisely this was a re-orientation to the divine. For all the strictly scientists and future athiests this would be the unexpected bagagge of the Presocratics. They always return with a challenge. As original thinkers they always bring something fresh.
Nietzsche saw them as comets. Scattering shards of bright thought, appearing and disappearing in an incisive flash. That seeming impermanence, only to leave a lasting trail. Then there is the layered nature of everything a Presocratic says. The double, the multiple interpretation. The surface heat, but forged of rock-ice.
They were outsiders, immigrants - only later to be seen orbiting the Athenian sun.
Nietzsche saw them as comets. Scattering shards of bright thought, appearing and disappearing in an incisive flash. That seeming impermanence, only to leave a lasting trail. Then there is the layered nature of everything a Presocratic says. The double, the multiple interpretation. The surface heat, but forged of rock-ice.
They were outsiders, immigrants - only later to be seen orbiting the Athenian sun.
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