And the Hi and welcome to the History of Philosophy podcast supported by King Scholars

London and the Lever Hume Trust. Today we have a very special episode for the very

first time. We're going to have a guest on the history of philosophy and our

guest is Professor Emma McCabe, my colleague here at Kings College London.

Hi Peter. Lovely to have you here. my colleague here at King's College London.

Hi Peter.

Lovely to have you here, Emma.

Very nice to be, yeah.

Absolutely.

So today we're going to be talking about Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher.

So could you just remind us quickly who he is?

So Heraclitus from Ephesus, 6th century BC pre-Socratic philosopher, maybe the guy who changed the face of it all.

Right, so that is actually the first thing I wanted to ask you.

I wanted to ask you whether you think Heraclitus really represents something new in the history of

pre-Socratic philosophy or whether he sort of just

carries on what the my lesions had been doing so Thalese and Axamander these guys.

So sometimes people represent him as just being one in a line. So you've got

einie, me, miney, mow choice of what you're going to use as your material

principle. And so Fadee says water,

anneximander says the indefinite, and anneximini says air,

and Heraclitus kind of runs out of things to say,

so he says, fire.

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