Heraclitus and Parmenides - an ontic perspective

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, , language: English, abstract: The article investigates fragments of the two Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides, which are frequently seen as indicating two drastically different views of the world – the former often being summarized as “Everything flows”, the latter as “Everything rests”. The per...