Wednesday, July 14, 2021

War, what is it good for?

Heraclitus sits apart from the other philosophers in Raphael's School of Athens


War is the father of all and king of all; and some he shows as gods, others as men, some he makes slaves, others free.

-- Heraclitus, Diels-Kranz, 22B53

Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ
βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ
ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ
ἐλευθέρους.