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michaelP schrieb Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:50:10 +0100:

> ME:
> > The insight that identity is always an identity of identiy and
> > difference is one of the deepest ontological insights that we have
> > already from Plato.
>
> Michael, is this insight also that of Heraclitus when he makes of be-ing
> that it be both the same {sympheromenon} –brought together– and different
> {diapheromenon} –brought apart– than its self [from fragment 10]?
>
>

ME: Of course. Both Plato and Hegel are students of Herakleitos.

Philosophical thinking is able to see the facets of being, explicitly bringing
them to light as such, by engaging in the dialectic as “objective dialectic
(Heraclitus), change, transition of things through themselves, i.e. of the
ideas, that is here, of their categories, not external changeability, but inner
transition out of and through itself” (objektive Dialektik (Heraklit),
Veränderung, Übergehen der Dinge an ihnen selbst, d. i. der Ideen, d. i.. hier
ihrer Kategorien, nicht die äußerliche Veränderlichkeit, sondern inneres
Übergehen aus und durch sich selbst, VGP II W19:66).

That Heidegger translates ‘identity’ as “Zusammengehörigkeit”
(belonging-together) and ‘difference’ as “Austrag” (a carrying apart), too, is
of Heraclitean provenance.

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