This philosophical reflection focuses on a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of change and its intrinsic connection to the concept of novelty. The author posits that any change, excluding perceived sudden jumps, necessarily combines an element of the newly emerging with an element of the persisting. Suddenness is interpreted here as a mere appearance caused by the high speed of the process. The text further develops the idea that even apparent immobility or the simple persistence of a thing over time is essentially a form of extremely slow change. This leads to the conclusion that everything in existence was new at its origin, with the process of change being a constant interweaving of emergence and passing away. A crucial point of the argument is the rejection of the existence of permanent, unchanging elements that would form a static foundation of the world. The author considers such an assumption to be logically unsustainable and internally contradictory, thereby emphasizing the processual nature of all reality, where nothing stands outside of flow and becoming.
Změna a „novost“
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◆ philosophical diary – record, Czech, origin: 7. 7. 2012
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- 2012