2. God and the Unity of Opposites: Heraclitus

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments XI
4. 0. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Philosophical Theology in Presocratic Philosophy and the Oresteia
6. 1. Explicit Theological Innovations: Xenophanes’ God 35
7. 2. God and the Unity of Opposites: Heraclitus 51
8. 3. Zeus Whoever He Is 76
9. 4. Zeus as the Ultimate Principle behind Reality 90
10. Part II: Cosmic Justice: between a Metaphysics of Harmony and a Metaphysics of Conflict
11. 5. Cosmic Justice and the Metaphysics of Opposites: Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides 117
12. 6. Dikê, Time, and Necessity in the Oresteia 146
13. 7. Dikê as conflict in the Oresteia 172
14. 8. Persuasive Dikê: from violence to kindness 204
15. 9. A Cosmos of Opposites 214
16. 10. Epilogue 234
17. Bibliography 243
18. Index of Sources 261