Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties: everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Variety and change are conditions of the one infinite being rather than separate entities.
- In plain terms
- Diversity and change are states of the single being not separate things.
- What can you take from it?
- Recognize diversity as a mode of being rather than a collection of separate things.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is separation real or just a perspective?
- How does unity allow for diversity?
Another view
This framework struggles to explain why individual identities feel distinct and separate.
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