Poésie et beauté du monde chez Héraclite

Abstract. The aim of this analysis is to show the gap between the notional and philosophical content of the Heraclitean cosmos and the pseudo-worlds created by Greek poets working with images and language. If the true world, for Heraclitus, is the world we share, then we would say that there is a truth of the world that “always lives” in the present and is constantly renewed. Better still, it is this truth of the “living world” that also expresses the struggle of opposites, in which the positive and the negative are perpetually pitted against each other in a never-ending unity.