Is Heraclitus' philosophy pessimistic?
Some mistake the acknowledgment of constant change and tension for pessimism. This is a misunderstanding. The constant flux is not decay, but life. The tension between opposites is not strife to be avoided, but the very source of harmony and order. It is through this dynamic interplay, this struggle, that existence finds its balance and its meaning. There is no stagnation, only perpetual renewal.
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