Abstract

CORDERO, Néstor-Luis. Heraclitus’ Style and its Relation to his Conception of Human Nature. Nova tellus [online]. 2025, vol.43, n.2, pp.11-26.  Epub Sep 26, 2025. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2025.43.2/x001w03a250691.

“Darkness” in Heraclitus’ style is real, but it is methodological. As we will try to prove in this work, he intends the human being to improve, to quit sleeping, to open his ears, to listen to the voice, that is, the speech (λόγος) of φύσις, to stop being absent and to be present. In order to reach this he must know himself (fr. 101), that is, he must vindicate the researcher into himself, and so Heraclitus offers him clues and indications such as the oracle, which never expresses itself openly (fr. 93). It compels him to read or listen the same “dark” text several times until, as Diogenes Laertius wrote, darkness become “light”. It all depends on the notion everyone has of human condition: he may remain ignorant and so condemn himself to be an eternal sleeper, or he get to know himself listening and understanding to the law which rules cosmic rhythm, to λóγος.

Keywords : Heraclitus; Methode; Darkness; lógos.

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