Heraclitus’ eschatology: Was there one, or not?

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1553/WST134S27" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1553/WST134S27</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/WST134S27" target="_blank" >10.1553/WST134S27</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Heraclitus’ eschatology: Was there one, or not?

Original language description

Heraclitus’ eschatology is largely derived from his concept of the soul. One group of researchers holds that the dry souls of the wise, the well-informed and of soldiers endure after death, while the souls of the ignorant, the sick, and of cowards perish with death in water because of pleasures, disease, and obtuseness. Souls that are neither too dry nor too wet persist in the underworld. However, other specialists consider the presence of an eschatology in Heraclitus’ thinking to be unproven and contradictory. According to them, all souls cyclically arise from or vanish into water or fire, and the measure of their dryness or wetness has only a moral or intellectual meaning and not an eschatological one. Both of these interpretative positions have their strong points, but they also come with some problems and questions that are very serious and difficult to solve. It is possible that Heraclitus intentionally did not express himself clearly in this area, so that his statements included both positions without, in all likelihood, giving priority to either.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-00355S" target="_blank" >GA19-00355S: Soul and Death: the oldest Conceptions of Eschatology in Greek Antiquity</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Wiener Studien. Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition

ISSN

0084-005X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

134

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

27-49

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85111076976