Essays in Metaphysics

metaphysics whose nature is characterized by difference

each with respect to itself the same.”

Ever since the era of speculative idealism we are no longer permitted to think of the unity of identity as a monotonous sameness,

mediation prevailing in unity

Even in the improved formula “A is A” only the abstractness of identity is apparent

the plant is a plant,” he would speak tautologically.

In the dialogue Sophist 254d Plato is speaking of stásis and kínesis, of arrested motion and sudden reversal

conclusion of a seminar on Hegel’s Science of Logic

Heidegger goes to the womb of things, beyond language to the home of speech to draw the final inspiration