This text explores the fundamental structure of being and the relationship between nothingness and existence by reinterpreting Leibniz’s classic question. The author argues that nothingness is not immutable and must necessarily transition into "something," a process defined as proto-transcendence where call and response merge. The study rehabilitates dialectics and the cosmological Logos, viewing the emergence of beings as an ek-static moment of nothingness. Every true being is characterized as an event limited by finitude, governed by the principles of Physis and Logos. This finitude creates a fundamental asymmetry with nothingness, which acts as a creative principle constantly striving for higher levels of being. Within the world of beings, transcendence is not merely transience or transgression, but the act of leaving the existing behind and orienting toward what is yet to come from the future. Ultimately, transcendence is understood as an essential movement toward the "not-yet" rather than the mere persistence of the past.
Transcendence / Transgrese / Transience
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◆ philosophical diary – record, Czech, origin: 12. 1. 1993
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- 1993