Thesis Summary
This statement connects the internal conflict in things with cosmic transformation, making the world an ongoing movement rather than a state of fixedness, and linking this to resurrection and to the fate of paradise and hell.
Foundational Atoms
- The law of internal conflict explains development and ruin
- Resurrection is a cosmic passage with no return
- Paradise and hell do not yet exist
Place of Reliance Within the Book
These meanings appear in the first section of the book, with their extension to the treatment of resurrection and paradise and hell in a later section of the book.
Limits of the Reading
What is meant here is the gathering of the closely related meanings as they appear in the atoms, not the construction of an independent conception apart from them. Nor should this formulation be understood in isolation from the framework of becoming adopted by the author.