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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEureka - I figured it out-Trump is espousing Heraclitus' Philosophy
He is a student of that ancient Greek Philosopher who stated:
'We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not
He steps into a different river every day, every moment and at THAT one second that is who he is and at the same time that is who he is not. Trump KNOWS we live in a world of flux and what is reality today is in the past tomorrow.
Damn, the man is great and beyond our human ken - I am sending this off to Sarah H for her next press conference.
If you would like to garner some of Trump's brilliance and understanding of how life really functions:
https://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/heraclitus-on-change/
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Eureka - I figured it out-Trump is espousing Heraclitus' Philosophy (Original Post)
packman
Jul 2018
OP
I recently watched a NOVA special on recent anthropological discoveries in South Africa.
gordianot
Jul 2018
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whathehell
(29,065 posts)1. That must be it..
He's a deep thier, misunderstood.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)2. I recently watched a NOVA special on recent anthropological discoveries in South Africa.
They described human hominid origins as a flow of diverse groups of proto humans that may have flowed together that resulted in modern humans. There would be no single proto human ancestor. I tend to look as Trump as being the antithesis of this philosophy he has a single rigid world view. By our nature we may be the result of a river that flowed together and not single branches from a tree. This would probably be very disconcerting to a Donald Trump or authoritarian who divides life solely into winners and losers.
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)3. More like the philosophy of the average Cletus.