Friday, March 28, 2025

 

Wrong

From a recent blog post:
Montaigne devotes a brief essay to a pair of pre-Socratic Greek thinkers, "Of Democritus and Heraclitus." The former is reputed to have been a misanthrope, perhaps a melancholic. The latter was known as "the laughing philosopher."
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This is incorrect. Democritus (the former) was the laughing philosopher, Heraclitus (the latter) was the weeping philosopher.

Related post: Democritus and Heraclitus.

Hat tip: Eric Thomson.

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# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 3:42 PM


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