Posts Tagged ‘univocity’

the only realized Ontology

May 27, 2008

However, the only realized Ontology – in other words, the univocity of being – is repetition. From Duns Scotus to Spinoza, the univocal position has always reseted on two fundamental theses. “there are indeed forms of being, but contrary to what is suggested by the categories, these forms involve no division within being or plurality of ontological senses.” “that of which being is said is repartitioned according to essentially mobile individuating difference which necessarily endow ‘each one’ with a plurality of modal signification.” (303)

…in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

May 27, 2008

Being is said according to forms which to not break the unity of its sense; it is said in a single same sense throughout all its forms – that is why we opposed to categories notions of a different kind. It is not analogous being which is distributed among the categories and allocates a fixed part to beings, but the beings which are distributed across the space of univocal being, opened by all the forms. Opening is an essential feature of univocity. The nomadic distributions or crowned anarchies in the univocal stand opposed to the sedentary distributions of analogy. Only there does the cry resound: ‘Everything is equal!’ and ‘Everything returns!’. However, this ‘Everything is equal’ and this ‘Everything returns’ can be said only at the point at which the extremity of difference is reached. A single and same voice for the whole thousand voiced multiple, a single and same Ocean for all the drops, a single clamour of Being for all beings: on the condition that each being, each drop and each voice has reached the state of excess – in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.(304)