Ecclesiastes Vs Preacher

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In the final section of this essay, I will import other authors to compare their respective similarities or dissimilarities to the Preacher; their being discussed will provide us framework and context within which we can re-position Ecclesiastes as a whole, and specific verses therein; I’ve restricted myself to importing authors who believe in some level of ontological “vanity” or emptiness, since it would be vain to compare Ecclesiastes to works that don’t meet this criterion, since they’re of an entirely separate class of thought. Let’s start by comparing some of Heraclitus’ fragments with some lines from Ecclesiastes: Fragment LIII largely agrees with Ecclesiastes 2:23, since both question the telos of human effort. Deeper yet, both