Nothing is relative

During the read of Avicenna and his Metaphisical (980 b.Ch.-1037 b.Ch) a step is very interesting, because is expressed relativism; in fact he said: “You have learned on books of Logik the difference between that isn’t to virtus of something and that whose essence they haven’t said alone to rapport to other; this is very easy, although so read it seems very difficult, but if we think that in winter we usually hope that heat, therefore summer, but summer is hot and we will it because winter is cold, and this relation between two seasons and their difference exists, and we prefered summer because is a season very hot on contrary winter is cold; first has direct relation between cold and heat that we connected to two seasons, and this difference is the relation of these seasons, but one is present because other is present. It is simply ridicolous to his facility but we was saiding about natural fenomenal but we can esteem two concettual and abstarct think, this are all and nothing; in fact as summer and winter we can think that one is relative to other, because without all could not be nothing, that in my opinion is conceptual alone, because isn’t in reality, but this holds up the truth because reality nothing isn’t and all is just as much illusion because all what we think and mean? All and nothing are concept abstract and relative one to other, why? Because without one other would not be, nothing is contrary of all and it is contrary of nothing therefore they are relative, one can’t exists without other. Other concept that we can use to explain this connectionand relativism, we can read this step: “…the multiplicity is present with unity alone , and it dessapears with desappears of his unities. The molteplicity doesn’t desappear to itself but accors that first desappear his unities and after desappear the moltiplicity…”; this concept says that relavely to unity, that is composed bysingle unity, this is the number then is composed by then unity of one, that is unity because are then that have composed it; therefore the unity of then is present because are then single unity of then this is one plus one and so until then, thereby the unity of then is connected to one and series of one untile then. It is normal and elementar, certainly, but it is thruly elementary and nobody think it so, I remember words of Robert Musil(1880-1942): “The monument is so great that nobody see it”, this concept is so evident that nobody thinks it; therefore relativism between all and nothing is present because both are present, exist it, otherwise if one lanks other can no be thought. Finally I can mention other step that synthesizes this concept: "...you have learned that the essence of something we can tell through rapport to other..."

Alessandro Lusana