Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• said binayemotlagh

professor of Isfahan University

Abstract

Heraclitus is widely held to believe in Becaming (universal Flux, Motion, so to speak): whereas Parmenides in Stability (Rest, to use Platonic terminology). If it really were so, how then could we explain the eternal caracter of Heraclitian Logos or the emergence (genesis) of beings as Parmenides describes it in second part of his poem ?In this paper, we are dealing only with Heraclitus, focusing on fragment 32: “One, sole Sage, is unwilling and yet willing to be called by the name of Zeus”. To do so, we first assess some leading commentaries, then we suggest a different interpretation of the same fragment.

Keywords

• One
• Zeus
• Heraclitus
• Ishwara
• Brahma