PHI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Samkhya, Ishvara, Vaisheshika
4 Apr 2017
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The world cannot have come from something unlike itself: it always was and is and will be. You can"t step into the same river twice. Is this a backward step: going back to one of the elements. The principle of things is like fire: ordinary fire is a vivid example of the process of transformation, things are constantly changing and not stable and fixed. It is not possible to step into the same river twice: you can"t even step into once, since the river in which you start to step is gone before the step is completed. Heraclitus: nature likes to hide itself: it is even a deceiver, it seems to consist of stable things, but the truth is everything flows. The soul is a special kind of fire: running throughout the body getting it to move. Hence the soul is part of the natural world, not something apart from it.
