Heraclitus

The maven of the Renaissances greatest master painter, Raphael was the one who created the masterpiece, The school of Athens. It was a great paint that was painted between from 1510 to 1511. The painting contained known professionals such as mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and many other professionals including Raphael himself. Raphael of course wonderd all the people in the painting that he drew himself. For me when I see the drawing I admire these three people Heraclitus, Alexander the Great, and Pythagoras the most.I also believe that Raphael himself had admired these people wish well me because of many reasons. Heraclitus was a great man who was considered to be known as one of classics principle philosophers. However, he is more known to be a great scientist who has created a foundation of modern physics. His philosophy or his way of thinking has changed the view of European world completely. His theory was called Logos or being more specific it was an important wor d of honor that he utilize to explain his philosophy, which became an important in subjects such as philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion.The term Logos has been used by many famous people other than Heraclitus, but what is it that makes this person special? The answer to this question I believe has lead Raphael who drew Heraclitus to admire him. Heraclitus was a new kind or type of thinking man in his age, since his view of the world was totally different from the others. He used the word Logos in explaining his philosophy and defined it as opposite things the like water and fire being one together.It is very hard to understand and evening Heraclitus himself has say that the term Logos could not be defined completely accurate by us human beings even though it is always with us in the present. As I have said before this philosophy made by Heraclitus however changed the view point of the Europeans and Raphael, who was known have the point of the humanist could have also been affected by this. The opposites ar suppose to be one whole thing, but we humans who see these things are the ones who savvy differently than what the reality tells us.A person who was known to be one of the greatest warriors of whole time, Alexander the Great was drawn on the painting by Raphael. Being a king and also being a student of a famous philosopher, Aristotle, Alexander the Great was a famous person. His philosophy if said it would match the one by Aristotle, since he did learn from Aristotle. However, Alexander aside from his masters philosophy had a logical way of thinking and one example of that was adapting his empire to the Hellenic culture(Greek culture), which was more reasonable and logical by any means in life.For example, the education, government, and many other things including art and philosophy of the Greek culture was much better in most of aspects. This part of the Alexander was what I believe Raphael idolize the most. There are of course more aspect s roughly him that are considered good and bad. The good parts would mostly have been his aspect about the culture, especially the art and the philosophy of other countries. On the other afford the bad parts would have been about him being very violent and impulsive nature.Overall, he is considered to be a great warrior now days and essential have also been acknowledged by Raphael, since Raphael drew Alexander on the painting. Finally the person who was known to be a philosopher, scientist, and most of all famous for being one of the greatest mathematicians is Pythagoras. He was a very knowledgeable man and the reason was because he spent about half of his life eruditeness and traveling to many different countries. Pythagoras learned many things and part of the learning was about religion, which made him to believe in transmigration, or should I say the transition of a soul over and over until it becomes immortal.He was also in religion worshipped as a god or a superhuman figu re that could travel between time and space. This situation in a way allowed him to create his own school that was religious and secretive. Of course beside from this kind of exertion he created the Pythagorean Theorem, which now days is very important part of math. The theory in summary is stating that in right angled triangle the consecutive of a hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the left over sides. This theory indeed affected a lot of things in math, but Pythagoras influence didnt discover at this point.Instead, the influence got bigger until he influenced most of other subjects such as music, science, and religion. This great influence on the education must have been what Raphael idolized because Pythagoras was also acknowledged by other famous philosophers like Aristotle and Plato for his correctly influence. Heraclitus, Alexander the Great, and Pythagoras are three people that I most admire when I see the School of Athens are also the same people who must h ave been idolized by the creator, Raphael.The influences of all three of them were very powerful in many ways, for example, Heraclitus philosophy became the base of physics, Alexander the Great changed the culture of many countries, and Pythagoras math theorem became important part in our math today. There are of course many other great and famous professionals who are inside the picture and they in many ways have been admired by Raphael like the three I most idolize. However, in my opinion I do think that Raphael himself should be acknowledged as well, since compare to the people in the picture, he also has achieved great things like them.