The fires of change: Kirk, Popper, and the Heraclitean debate

Stance 12 (1):57-63 (2019)
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In this paper, I explore a prominent question of Hericlitean scholarship: how is change possible? Karl Popper and G. S. Kirk tackle this same question. Kirk asserts that Heraclitus believed that change is present on a macrocosmic level and that all change is regulated by the cosmic principle logos. Popper, on the other hand, claims Heraclitus believed that change is microcosmic and rejected that all change is regulated by logos. I argue for a combination of aspects from each of their claims and conclude that change is present both microcosmically and macrocosmically and that all change is governed by logos .

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Back to the Pre-Socratics: The Presidential Address.Karl R. Popper - 1959 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 59:1 - 24.
Article: On Cosmogony and Ecpyrosis in Heraclitus.Aryeh Finkelberg - 1998 - American Journal of Philology 119 (2):195-222.

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