Change and Duality

For the ancient philosophers change was their central concern, does anything change? If something has changed it is not what it was before and if something is not what it was before, then it is a new thing, therefore change is not possible, every change creates a new object separate from the previous object. That is why, I believe, Aristotle made the distinction of Change and Identity, change happens but the identity remains the same. It can also be a measure of change, how much can one identity vary in its composition whilst remaining the same object. This is where the modern day has not got much further than the ancient philosophers, they have failed to measure change and the methods of analyzing change. For me, I think we need to look closely at the ideas of internal and external duality.

Dividing things into internal and external might appear at first to be quite simple, you start with the smallest thing and go out towards the biggest thing, at first everything is external and finally everything is internal, I like to think that way. What I want to consider is the void, without nothingness things would all be parts of each other, and in many that is what we are. But there are gaps between objects, gaps created by the void, could movement be possible without the presence of nothingness. This nothingness, the Void, is unchanging, it can't change because it has no being. Starting with the unchanging Void, change becomes more meaningful as we go up the stages, Elements, plants, animals, humans, spirits, and finally God. The question that really gets me thinking is, what does change mean to God? Is all change God made?

The idea of a dialectic is that opposing arguments should create, eventually, the Truth, some believe the truth is a mixture of both arguments, some believe there are dialectics that can't be solved. My idea is that the duality of the dialectic actually exists, God and the Void are opposing arguments that actually create the duality of existence, that only opposing infinites, or substances, can create the finite. Creation and destruction are opposite ends of the same continuum, there are so many dialectics that describe the sense of life and existence. Life is a dialectic, it is not just a method of logic it is a way of understanding the meaning of our beliefs, it has a reality, what I would call an Ideal Reality. Change can be measured by there extremes, can a genius be stupid? can a good person commit evil? can something unacceptable also be acceptable? These are the questions of the ancients and we are nowhere closer to having an answer, my idea is to see life as a Duality that powers the change.