Heraclitus and the Community of Inquiry

Those who look at the title of this paper could ask themselves: again Heraclitus? Again a Greek? Again a philosopher from early history? Why are we looking again at the history of philosophy, and, in this case, at the very beginning of that history? What can Heraclitus give us? What can we obtain from a source so distant in time, space and reality?I choose to ask my own questions. This paper proposes to deal with our relationship to the history of philosophy. What are we trying to find there? Maybe some nourishment for our thoughts: we, as philosophers,are thinkers, and ideas and concepts are material for our thought. In Philosophy for Children we express thisinsight very clearly: we consider philosophy as a discipline and the whole curriculum of novels and manuals is an attempt to reconstruct the problems and ideas that philosophers have been discussing in the history of the discipline for about 26 centuries.