{"id":9001,"date":"2013-02-09T05:18:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/09\/the-impermanence-of-the-impermanent-and-the-permanent\/"},"modified":"2013-02-09T05:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:18:45","slug":"the-impermanence-of-the-impermanent-and-the-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/09\/the-impermanence-of-the-impermanent-and-the-permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impermanence of the Impermanent and the Permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most ephemeral and fragile of things are yet not nothing: a wisp of cloud, a passing shadow, a baby whose hour of birth is its hour of death. And such seemingly permanent fixtures of the universe as Polaris are yet not entirely being<\/em>.  Both the relatively impermanent and the relatively permanent point beyond themselves to the absolutely permanent.  Each is, absolutely considered, impermanent.  No finite fixture is finally fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\"Simone\"<\/a>Simone Weil puts the thought like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. (Gravity and Grace<\/em>, tr. Craufurd, p. 97)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Her formulation, however, is defective: stars are born and die.  They are not utterly permanent.  They too are impermanent.  Under the aspect of eternity, the different time scales of Alpha Ursae Minoris and a bear cub mean nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The most ephemeral and fragile of things are yet not nothing: a wisp of cloud, a passing shadow, a baby whose hour of birth is its hour of death. And such seemingly permanent fixtures of the universe as Polaris are yet not entirely being.  Both the relatively impermanent and the relatively permanent point beyond themselves to the absolutely permanent.  … Continue reading “The Impermanence of the Impermanent and the Permanent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impermanence","category-weil-simone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}