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pyr / πῦρ / πυρός / pyros / Hephaistos / Ἥφαιστος / Hefesto

Em grego pyr, que também significa luz e ardor.


This also explains, in a certain respect, in what way the κóσμος is a fire (πῦρ). Fire contains another threefold sense, insofar as it is simultaneously the rising flame, the brooding glow, and the radiating light, along with the richness of contrasts which this equivocation make possible. We, the completely different people of the modern era, as devotees of logic, believe the contrary, that a word is only first meaningful when it has just one meaning. But for Heraclitus   precisely this manifold richness is the κóσμος. It never appears as something isolated, but shimmers ungraspably throughout everything. So we understand him in our reading of fragment 124: In comparison with the κóσμος, in its complete appearing as fire, “the most beautiful ordering of all is surely comparable to a heap of randomly spilled garbage.” This means that the inapparent joining together of the κóσμος is superior to every visible ordering, even if it be the most beautiful possible (fragment 54). [GA15  ]