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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When does a chair stop being a chair?
Remove a leg. Remove the back. Separate the wood. At what point has the chair disappeared-and what, exactly, has gone away?
To Be Is Not to Be begins with that ordinary question and follows it to the oldest arguments in philosophy. Against the instinct to treat things as isolated and self-contained, Joseph Fansler develops Simultaneism: a philosophy of form, difference, connection, change, and remainder.
The book does not ask readers to deny loss, individuality, science, or responsibility. It asks a more demanding question: what if a thing can be what it is only through what it is not?
Moving through Parmenides, Heraclitus, Socrates, Nāgārjuna, Spinoza, entropy, time, consciousness, and the limits of knowledge, Fansler distinguishes every thing from Everything.
Every thing changes. Everything remains.
The Void is not empty. The Void is complete.
This is not a promise of personal immortality, a claim that physics proves metaphysics, or a new religion. It is an invitation to examine what existence, difference, and connection actually require.
For readers of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of time, and serious questions of meaning, To Be Is Not to Be offers a direct, original argument:
To be something is to have a boundary. But every boundary depends upon what it excludes.
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