It is weariness to toil at the same tasks and be always beginning.

-LIII
The beginning and the end are shared in the circumference of a circle."
What awaits men at death they do not expect or even imagine."
One cannot step twice into the same river, nor can one grasp any mortal
substance in a stable condition, but it scatters and again gathers; it forms
and dissolves, and approaches and departs. LI
Mortal: Bound by time and space, transient,

Essay: Using 3-5 fragments, explain how Heraclitus's notion of the unity of
opposites allows us to make sense of the human condition.

Human condition of mortality: One cannot step twice into the same river,
nor can one grasp any mortal substance in a stable condition, but it scatters
and again gathers; it forms and dissolves, and approaches and departs.
-change

Unity of opposites: The beginning and the end are shared in the
circumference of a circle." makes a whole
Graph of a circle:
Position over time.
We are bound by time and space.
BUT the unique human condition is not simply that we are mortal and we
know it, because everything that is seen is transient, and even animals
might possibly understand these facts of life; it is that a man can even
articulate such statements:
It is weariness to toil at the same tasks and be always beginning.
What awaits men at death they do not expect or even imagine."
We know that we are bound by time and space, and the human condition of
mortality and awareness of this life is made sense of by what we can
imagine based on such knowledge. We can think of our being from an
imagined outside point of view and also imagine what lies beyond. I suggest
that an outcome of a certain way this imagination is chosen to be used is
that humans are the only beings which have so disrupted the food web, so
degraded the environment, and tried to rule over their own lives than to be
subject to nature and in the process destroyed so much. Therefore we are
the only beings capable of destroying the cycles of nature. We can see
ourselves in it from without, and from within we look to what is without. We
can create gods of ourselves, of individuals and of civilizations

be reflective, to ponder about the being in these bounds from a theoretical

position outside of these bounds based on the knowledge of, and we can be
utterly clueless and illogical, thinking of what might be beyond time and
space from within it.

Human condition: Man is mortal. Man can ponder about life and what is
beyond life. The only set of creatures that doesnt understand its place in
the world. thinks about what is beyond mortality, beyond what it knows.

We are limited. We know we have limitations; things we cant control. In

everyday life we experience these that we fall short in one way or another,
but its utmost is in the cycle of lifebirth and death. That a man does not
choose to be born, and cannot escape death. The Death: that we are mortal
beings unable to grasp the fact that our lives are not in our own hands.
Limited because we did not choose to be born, and that the fact of death is
inevitable.

I believe that Diels was right in locating the central insight of Heraclitus in
this identity of structure between the inner, personal world of the psyche
and the larger natural order of the universe. The doctrines of fire, cosmic
order, and elemental transformations serve as more than illustrations; but
they are significant only insofar as they reveal a general truth about the
unity of opposites, a truth whose primary application for human beings lies
in a deeper understanding of their own experience of life and death,
sleeping and waking, youth and old age. If I have chosen as epigraph for
this book two quotations from Spinoza and Unamuno, that is not because
they assert doctrines with which Heraclitus would have agreed but because
they locate more precisely the focal point of his own philosophical
reflection: a meditation on human life and human destiny in the context of
biological death. In Heraclitus' view such an understanding of the human
condition is inseparable from an insight into the unifying structure of the
universe, the total unity within which all opposing principles including
mortality and immortality are reconciled.