Heraclitus and Perminides and their philosophy

Heraclitus:

Heraclitus lived around 500 BC in the city of Ephesus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He became famous as the "flux and fire" philosopher for his proverbial utterance: "All things are flowing." Coming from an eminent aristocratic family, Heraclitus is the first nobleman in the cabinet of Greek philosophers. He introduced important new perspectives into Greek thought and produced a book of which his followers said that it is hard to read.
In spite of the difficulties, Heraclitus was admired by his contemporaries for the theory of flux, which influenced many generations of philosophers after him. Judging from his writings, Heraclitus doesn't appear to be a complaisant character. Not only does he condemn all of his philosophic predecessors, but his contempt for mankind leads him to think that dullness and stupidity are innate human traits.

"Everythingis a state of flux, but change occursaccording to an unchangeable law and this law involves inteaction between the two opposites.But this interaction between the opposites is such that it creates hermony"-according to Heraclitus.

Actually, there exist two forces-constuctive and destructive. A constant tension between these two forces is the fundamental building block of the universe.

Perminides:

Perminides was another Greek philosopher, who was known as the mad philosopher by other contemporary.

"What is, is./What is not, is not./ What is, can be thought./ What is not, can not be thought."

He believed that change is impossible. Our senses betray with us, to show the changes. Actually he was the 'spiritual philosopher' and he depended on ritual and spiritual practices.

So, we can make a clear distinction between these two. Change is possible- according to Heraclitus. But Change is logically impossible, what human beings notice by means of sense of change is basically nothing. These are the illusion of senses- according to Perminides. Anyone can justify the statement of Perminides, if he judges it in the greater context of spiritual reality.

Nazim Ahmed, ELL, SUB