Abstract

Nietzsche, in Ecce homo, indicated three points of connexions between his ideas and Heraclitus. This relationship will be inspected within the question of “becoming”. First, we will examine these references in Die Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen, and note will be taken of the similarities as well as the differences between the Nietzsche’s lectures and the tradition about Heraclitus. Second, we will show that Heraclitus’ influence continue until the Nietzsche’s ripe philosophy, in specific, in the “Dionysian philosophy”