logos (to sofon mounon - monotheism)
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Tags: Heraclitus and logos
Heraclitus’ Hen, to sofon mounon,
where sofon mounon, ‘the only wise’,
means ‘the only becoming, seemly’,
looks like, but is the very opposite
to mono-theism.
Monotheism is the worry for just one god,
for just the own people, while any other god
(and people) is held at distance. This sort
of religion is now being lauded and used
for total war. The war of all against
all, the war of exclusive gods, of
‘civilizations’.
That Hades and Dionysos are ‘the same’
in another saying of Heraclitus, does not
assert any identity in this sense, but
collects - ! - opposites into the same
sphere of: to sofon. This is man’s dimension,
and not goddamned murdering sologods.
We have in our tradition two places
visited by gods: Greece and Israel.
What happened there, we don’t really know,
but it has remained with us for thousands
of years. We’ll have to face the inevitable,
it faces us anyway.
Without reconsidering the relations Greece/Germany -
Israel-US, there can be no peace with other beginnings,
esp. not with the closest: Islam, but also not with
hinduism and taoism. Whatever one will do to escape,
technology itself holds us fast there. Earth-sky, life-death,
day-night want to shine, but are not allowed/gelassen.
rene
Wir singen aber vom Indus her
fernangekommen und
vom Alpheus, lange haben
das Schickliche wir gesucht.
(Der Ister. Greek for the Donau, which originates
in the South of Germany and flows straight to
the East, to the Black Sea)
We though sing, come from the Indus
far away and
from the Alpheus, long time
have we sought the becoming. - to sofon
