Dialectics
Spirit
says 'no'. This 'no' is not for itself. It is for giving its chance
to the difference, to an other
'yes'.
This is possible through dialectics.
Drawing force not from
assertion but from negation can only be an act of the spirit.
The
essential moment of dialectics is the negation.
From a full
enclosed in its fullness nothing else can emerge. Fullness closed on
itself means death. No innovation is possible without a gaping
through a fullness.
It
is like a worm in the fruit of the roundness of world. It is like a
disease in animal plenitude. However only through the negation
of the massive natural assertions can emerge, dialectically, the
human innovation. Man alone is where this act of negation occurs.
Nature has to go through the dialectical space of the human
spirit.
Paradoxical efficiency of this moment of
negation! Since the first tool, since the first stammering, every
task and every speech begins with 'breaking'
things and words. See the little child. Breaking is a necessary
prerequisit of building. Breaking is the strenght of the 'weaker
reed'!
The
spirit denies because it has so many things to assert. So many
'other' things!
Discernment
is the 'crisis' in the middle of any given certainty. It digs the
'truth' in ordre to get a more true truth. A given certainty is not
absolutely denied; it is
denied for a deeper certainty. The 'no' of the spirit is not
fundamentally the whole of the spirit which is more deeply a 'yes'.
If the logos says 'no', it is primarily to be able to say a 'yes'
elsewhere. A 'yes' different from that of the departure.
Logos,
therefore, speaks through
assertion and negation. That means it is dialectical.
It is in the tension of difference that the connections are
dialectically tied making up the knowledge. And this process is not
different from that of language.
Linguistic putting into form, for example, implies these
two reciprocally conditioned moments that are the differentiation
and the construction.
Every knowledge is made up through a distinction
and a meeting,
an analysis
and a synthesis.
To think means at the same time to distinguish and to connect.
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