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Gigne de nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti

A further upshot of the First Analogy is a useful distinction between ‘change’ and ‘alteration’. A change occurs when one thing or quality goes out of existence and is replaced by another. An alternation occurs when a thing persists, but undergoes a change of quality. For example, with respect of a leaf’s transition in colour from green to brown, one would say that leaf itself undergoes an alteration of colour. In the broadest comprehension of sensory experience, Kant maintains that the projection of the category of substance onto experience as a whole entails that ultimately, there are only changes of sensory quality, and no changes in substance. To express this with greater profundity, he mentions the Latin phrase, ‘gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilium nil posse reverti,’ which translates as ‘nothing comes from nothing, and nothing returns to nothing’. ~ Page 100

The structure of the faculty of Understanding

. . . . Kant maintains that space and time are within us before we experience any objects. . . . . the things we perceive are not in themselves what we perceive them as being, nor are their relations in themselves such as they appear to us, so that, if we remove the subject or the subjective form of our senses, all qualities, all relations of objects in space and time, indeed space and time themselves, would disappear . . . .Time is (therefore) simply a subjective condition of our (human) intuition . . .and in itself, apart from the subject, is nothing. ~ page 57 HWW & Happy New Year to all

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Richard Wagner in seinem Helm Wahnfried (Richard Wagner in his home, Wahnfried); l. to r: Casima and Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Hans von Wolgogen. Wood engraving; C. 1890, after painting, 1880, by Welhelm Beckmann (1852-1942) youtu.be/OQpQJRPHXh0?si=YM0ccJRr_H5vJeNB

CHOOSING DEATH OVER LIFE Suicide was not taboo for the Stoics. On the contrary, they believed in a man’s right to determine his own death as well as his own life.