Tag: hegel
Living things die, and they do so simply because they carry the germ of death in themselves. Something becomes an other, but the other is itself a something, hence it likewise becomes an other, and so and so forth ad infinitum.
G. W. F. Hegel, Encyclopaedia Logic, §92-3 (via lovevoltaireusapart)
“Accordingly, because of this original unity, the first negative, or the determination, is not, to begin with, a restriction for the universal; rather, the latter maintains itself in it and its self-identity is positive. The categories of being were, as concepts, essentially these identities of the determinations with themselves in their restriction or their otherness; but this identity was only implicitly the concept, was not yet made manifest. Consequently, the qualitative determination perished as such in its other and had as its truth a determination diverse from it. The universal, on the contrary, even when it posits itself in a determination, remains in it what it is. It is the soul of the concrete which it inhabits, unhindered and equal to itself in its manifoldness and diversity. It is not swept away in the becoming but persists undisturbed through it, endowed with the power of unalterable, undying self-preservation.”
— G.F.W. Hegel, Science of Logic (trans. Di Giovanni), 12.34
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