Dialectic of Differentiation

Structure, Becoming, Symbol

Authors

  • Denys Spirin Independent Researcher

Keywords:

ontology, differentiation, potentiality, structure, recursion, consciousness, aspect

Abstract

This work presents a dialectical ontology grounded in the act of differentiation. Being is not posited but unfolds through recursive distinction, where each act generates and transforms the conditions of further differentiation. Forms persist as aspectual configurations of difference. As differentiation recurs, it gives rise to structure, space, time, life, symbol, and society—each as a modulation in a multidimensional aspect-space. The dialectic here is not synthesis but immanent recursion: difference operating on itself. Potentiality is the unformed field enabling this dynamic. Ontology thus arises from within the movement of differentiation itself.

References

Plotinus, The Six Enneads, trans. Stephen MacKenna, London, Medici Society, 1917–1930.

G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A.V. Miller, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, The Complete Works, trans. Colm Luibheid and Paul Rorem, New York, Paulist Press, 1987.

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Published

13-07-2025

How to Cite

Spirin, D. (2025). Dialectic of Differentiation: Structure, Becoming, Symbol. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 21(1), 615–629. Retrieved from https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1234