In Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study Aryeh Finkelberg rejects the teleological interpretation of early Greek thought as targeted at later results, viz. philosophy, and seeks to determine its intended meaning by restoring it to its historical context.

The very title of the paper indicates my dissent from the view now prevalent in Heraclitean scholarship that Heraclitus put forward the theory of cosmological stability. Since my interpretative argument presupposes Heraclitus’ belief in cosmogony and general conflagration, it seems advisable to address this issue first.

El presente artículo pretende realizaruna crítica a la noción del kosmos griegoentendido como mundo ordenado, puesla evidencia textual en los escritorespresocráticos sólo podría soportar unanoci ón como est a en una época muyposterior a la de la filosofía griega temprana.En l os aut ores gri egos t empranos, elconcepto de kosmos no implica esta idea,como se muestra a través de la revisión delas traducciones erradas de sus fragmentos.Finalmente, se explica como hacer unanueva reinterpretación de sus filosofíasThis paper intends to advance (...) a criticism ofthe notion of Greek Kosmos understood as an orderly world, since textual evidence in the Presocratics could only support a notion like that for a period quite far from theearly Greek philosophy. In the early Greek philosophers, the notion of Kosmos does not convey this idea, as it will be shown througha revision of the wrong translation of their fragments. Finally, it will be explained how to do a new reinterpretation of their philosophies. (shrink)