The Theology of Heraclitus: a Presocratic Pantheism

110pleasilrg and just systeD. From this it ls a short step Eouse &q€499 to stand for a philosophlcal systen which sets outto order the entire physical world into intelligible 1alrs,reasonable explartat1ons, and just patterns. Both of theseu6es are characterized by the lnpo!tance of 1aws, IIono1; butrthile ir the social constltutions the laws are man-nade, ll.{6 quick to poldt ou! that tn hlsrsystenrthe laws a!e derivedfrom nei!her men nor eny one partLcular god (TLS 9e6v)but eve! nas, ls, and w{I1 be. thls contrast between huDanlaws and the eterrlal la\r of !he unlverse is dralln more explicitlytn fr.l14 uhlch states. "Those who speak with senseEust !e1y on ehat is connon to all, as a city nust rely onits 1av, and l'lth greater rellance; for aII the laws of ne.lare nourlshed by one law, -.the divlne 1ao,..l(trans. Rt!k).The kosnos lrhlch ls the satne for alI and which is e!elna1stands in close paralIel !o the 1aw that is conmon to all analts d!v1ne. The tlro, ln fact, s!and for the same thing: thephilosophical'systern'that H. is propos!ng and the truththat he has lealized gurrounds us all and bids us ac! in accordance\rlth it. Llke socletyrs laws It is regulatory andputs things lnto order and harnony; but unlike these hunanlaws it 1s eternal and dlvlne. Igjlgg, then, should not betranslated as "\ror1d-order", but instead, just as Alexandersaw, tt should be under€tood as the universal order or patternthat nakes up the ltor1d. 1i ls the eternal lan that organizesall, the perfect social constitu!ion writ over all of nature,!he philosophical systell of rhich H. is the herald but oot the