Heraclitus Philosophical Blindness

The Universal Viewpoint Society’s understanding of being blind has long being affiliated with one being without vision or being vision-impaired. Those who are inflicted with this unfortunate ailment cannot experience earth’s glory to the same magnitude of those who can see. For instance when a seeing-person ventures into the valleys, oceans, and mountains of our world with a blind person, that blind person will only be able envision the beauty of earth in accordance with a description. However, the subsequent mental pictures that are derived from that description will never fully be able to compare with the reality of that which is earth. And, while it is correct to correlate blindness with having a debilitated vision; its definition should

He goes on to say that “stupid people” are more attracted to bigger words than the actual content of things. (640-645). This comedic reference of Heraclitus, more specifically his audience, unveils the deficiency in their priorities but also their comprehension skills. The audience or “stupid people” vehemently ignore content and stand in bewilderment and awe for Heraclitus’ choice of tongue. This duality of philosophical blindness and pompousness are in conjunction. People being attracted to one’s ideologies simply because their word play appears superior is one in the same with one being blind. In the aforementioned analogy of a blind man being described a picture of earth’s beauty. The blind man will not be able to grasp the actual picture for they cannot see it in full form. Here, the sight are blind in that their captive, metaphorically. To Heraclitus’ words that they accept his standpoints as their own without fully grasping what he is saying. Lucretius says: “[Heraclitus] was famous on account of his obscure language.