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Nihil


Gigne de nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti
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Kant’s Latin phrase ‘gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti’ is from the Roman poet and satirist Aulus Persius Flaccus (34 - 62 AD) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persius in his Satire. A century before, the philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus (99 - 55 BCE) wrote similarly in ‘The Nature of Things’ that ‘Nil posse creari De nihilo, neque quod genitum est ad nihil revocari’, which translates as ‘Nothing can be produced from nothing, and whatever has been made cannot be brought back to nothing’. The thought traces back to the ancient Greek philosophers writing before Sacrotes. Aristotle tells us in his book, ‘De caelo’ that ‘there are philosophers such as Mwliaaua, and Parmenides, who deny any kind of generation and corruption. They say that nothing is really born or corrupted – it only appears to us to be so. The idea is that the world is eterna, stretching forever into the past a part of this eternal being, and will always remain so, death is only a surface phenomenon. The principle seems obvious, but it does contradict the theistic idea that God created the world out of nothing. ~ Page 100
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