Eraclito e la complessità del divenire

The paper intends to analyze the Heraclitean conception of becoming which is intrinsically complex. This, in fact, has a spiral movement and is disciplined by the old-new dialectic, for which innovation is never ex abrupto but a progressive metamorphosis of tradition. Stability and variation always proceed in synergy and, given the reticular structure of physis, the innovation is never absolute and isolated, but always relative and circumstantial. Only a multifocal approach, which multiplies the interpretative schemes, can be an effective method to understand to what extent one and the same entity mutates and does not mutate at the same time, without simplifying the ontological complexity.