O sábio, segundo Heráclito

Abstract

This study aims to explore the philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus, who lived between the 6th and 5th century B.C. in archaic Greece. The question that moves the interest of this work is made up as follows: how is achieved for Heraclitus the constitution of the sage? In the attempt to answer it, we will seek to understand, based on the fragments left by the philosopher, the relationship between logos and gnosis. From the path suggested by the thinker, considering what he tells us in his fragments, how can we understand the constitution of the sage and its possible relevance to philosophical thought even today? Thus posed the question, it is worth exploring the historical-philosophical context of that period. In this task, the interpretations of commentators such as Charles H. Kahn, Donald Schuller, and Alexandre Costa, among others, should help us. To this end, the work will be divided into four main sections. The first will try to define the concept of sage for the time and its relationship with logos. The second seeks to define the logos concept from the historical context and articulate it with the sage. The third section seeks to understand the concept of gnosis as Heraclitus possibly conceived it. In the end, we will conclusively approach the Heraclitean philosophy having a proposal for the conception of the sage.