Single Idea 13213

[catalogued under 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes]

Full Idea

Every coming-to-be is a passing away of something else and every passing-away some other thing's coming-to-be.

Gist of Idea

All comings-to-be are passings-away, and vice versa

Source

Aristotle (Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr) [c.335 BCE], 319a07)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.483


A Reaction

This seems to be the closest that Aristotle gets to sympathy with the Heraclitus view that all is flux. When a sparrow dies and disappears, I am not at all clear what comes to be, except some ex-sparrow material.