What is Different
From The Question of Value, page 119-120
Time emerges as different from timelessness;
Finitude emerges as different from transcendence:
The life instinct emerges as different from the death instinct;
Man emerges as different from the world;
Man as self-awareness emerges as different from man as body.
He goes on to say that these dualities have different qualities. For example, the finitude/transcendence differential is essentially a negative concept – transcendence is defined as “not finitude”, “not contingent”, “not limited”, and so forth, and thus reflects finitude only through negativity.
Can you see why his thinking fascinates me?
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