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Single Idea 21899
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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Full Idea
There is no being beyond becoming, nothing beyond multiplicity. ...Becoming is the affirmation of being.
Gist of Idea
There is no being beyond becoming
Source
Gilles Deleuze (Nietzsche and Philosophy [1962], p.23), quoted by Todd May - Gilles Deleuze 2.09
Book Ref
May,Todd: 'Gilles Deleuze' [CUP 2006], p.60
A Reaction
This places Deleuze in what I think of as the Heraclitus tradition. Parmenides does Being, Heraclitus does Becoming, Aristotle does Beings.
The
22 ideas
from Gilles Deleuze
21844
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The history of philosophy is an agent of power: how can you think if you haven't read the great names?
[Deleuze]
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21845
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Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state
[Deleuze]
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21839
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When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything
[Deleuze]
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21841
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We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.
[Deleuze]
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21842
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Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it
[Deleuze]
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21838
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Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems
[Deleuze]
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21847
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Before Being there is politics
[Deleuze]
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21840
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A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid)
[Deleuze]
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21843
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People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight'
[Deleuze]
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21849
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Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine
[Deleuze]
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21850
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Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path
[Deleuze]
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21848
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Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system
[Deleuze]
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21907
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We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories
[Deleuze, by May]
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21908
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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21903
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Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure
[Deleuze, by May]
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21904
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Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking
[Deleuze, by May]
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21901
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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture
[Deleuze, by May]
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21902
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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference'
[Deleuze]
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21851
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The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction
[Deleuze]
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21852
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Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21853
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We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society
[Deleuze]
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21899
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There is no being beyond becoming
[Deleuze]
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