Category: Keys to Understanding
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🗂️ Updated Glossary & Key Concepts
Understanding the Eternal Structure of Being in Light of Severino’s Thought This glossary introduces essential terms and distinctions for readers encountering the philosophy of Emanuele Severino and the paradigm of the eternal structure of Being. Each term is presented in accessible language, followed by clarifying analogies or diagrams where helpful. 1. Contraddizione C Definition: The…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 9
The Fear of Necessity: Is Suffering Eternal? The recognition of necessity—the understanding that all that is must be eternally—brings with it a question that has haunted human thought for millennia: if nothing can cease to be, does this mean that suffering, too, is eternal? This fear has been a major obstacle to embracing the eternal…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 8
Religion and the Eternal: Creation, God, and Necessity Religion has long been the primary means through which humanity seeks to understand ultimate reality. It provides narratives that shape meaning, morality, and our place in the cosmos. Yet, within religious thought, there is a fundamental tension: the assumption that God or the divine is eternal and…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 7
The Challenge of Language: How Words Reinforce Illusion Language is the medium through which we express, conceptualize, and communicate reality. Yet, it is also one of the greatest barriers to understanding the eternal structure of being. The very words we use are steeped in the assumption of becoming—of things arising, changing, and perishing. As it…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 6
The Misunderstanding of Nothingness: The Root of All Confusion At the foundation of nearly every misconception about reality—about time, causality, free will, and even meaning itself—lies a single, pervasive error: the belief in nothingness. The very idea that things can “come into being” or “cease to exist” is inseparable from the assumption that there is…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 5
Free Will and the Necessity of Choice Few concepts feel as fundamental to human experience as free will. We live with the conviction that we are active agents, capable of making choices, shaping our lives, and determining our future. And yet, if everything that is must necessarily be—if reality unfolds as an eternal, immutable structure—where…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 4
The Fear of Nihilism: Is an Eternal Reality Meaningless? One of the most common reactions to the idea of an eternal, unchanging reality is the fear of nihilism—the belief that if everything is necessary and immutable, then life, existence, and even our individual actions might lack meaning. How can a world without change or progress…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 3
Causality and the Persistence of the Chain of Events In everyday experience, causality—the relationship between causes and their effects—feels like an undeniable truth. We assume that every event has a cause, and every action, a corresponding effect. The idea that one event follows another is so deeply ingrained in our understanding of the world that…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 2
Science, Common Sense, and the Illusion of Time Time is one of the most unquestioned aspects of human experience. We measure it, plan by it, and recall the past while anticipating the future. Science, common sense, and everyday perception all seem to confirm that time is real—an objective framework within which all things move, change,…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 1
The Inescapable Belief in Becoming One of the most immediate and profound difficulties in understanding the Structure of Being is the deeply ingrained belief that things come into existence and pass away. This belief—what Emanuele Severino calls “becoming”—is not merely a theoretical assumption but a fundamental lens through which we perceive reality. We do not…
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Understanding the Structure of Being: An Introduction
Many who first encounter the Structure of Being, as revealed in Emanuele Severino’s thought, find themselves facing profound difficulties—not because the truth is obscure, but because habitual ways of thinking resist it. The idea that being is eternal, that nothing truly comes into or goes out of existence, contradicts the deeply ingrained belief in becoming—the…
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Necessity – A Necessary Clarification
The words necessity, necessary, and necessarily appear frequently in the posts on this site, primarily in reference to the Structure of Being, rather than in their common everyday usage. Typically, necessity is understood as something required by circumstances, causes, or logical conditions—something that must happen due to external constraints. This interpretation remains bound to the…
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Glossary of Key Terms in the Structure of Being
Appearing The process by which something enters the field of experience or thought. This does not mean it begins to exist but rather that it is made manifest within the eternal order of Being. What appears is not created, and what disappears is not annihilated—it simply moves in and out of appearing. Becoming The belief…
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Post 33 – The Structure of Being: The Necessity of What Is
The foundation of everything discussed in this blog was laid in the introduction and early posts. Readers who begin with later entries, without that groundwork, may find it difficult to grasp the frequently mentioned Structure of Being and its implications. While the explanation here is necessarily brief, I remind the reader that this blog is…
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