• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    This is could both be an excellent question or a less interesting one :p

    The less interesting one is answered that by Being you are, and thus cannot become. (Just as u/toofpic describes)

    The excellent question is why we can’t Become when already Being, or why we can’t unBecome from Nothing. For that we’d have to read more Hegel to understand the context.

    Why is it that when you take away from Nothing, nothing happens? It makes intuitive sense, but why must it be so? What would happen if it weren’t so?

    Hegel suggests that the qualities of purest Being and purest Nothing are the same, and that’s why the Becoming takes them into eachother.

    I don’t know that that’s useful though, someone else care to explain?

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        4 hours ago

        The concept of Nothingness?

        Or closer to Hegel: Nothing is the lack of all differentiation and content, and thus absolutely undifferentiated.

        Pure Being is without further differentiation, it has no diversity within itself, and is thus also absolutely undifferentiated.

        Nothing is pure Being (and with some other arguments the reverse is also true), they are inseparable and unseparated, yet distinct. And Hegel argues that the Becoming is the movement of one into the other, distinguishing them for a moment only to be resolved again.

        You can read it yourself in Hegel’s Science of Logic