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To tell the truth, I think you could pull "just be" in a whole myriad of different directions. I guess the interpretation can go as far as what deeper context you want to give it. Epistemologically, you could say that "just be" is a relative account of Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy. Rene Descartes in
Meditations on First Philosophy Metaphysics. "being" to Aristotle is ultimately "substance," but is interesting to see how he arrived at that conclusion. This is an excerpt from a paper I did a long time ago on "being" in book Zeta 1 and 2 where Aristotle elaborates on "what is being."
VideCorSpoon wrote:In Metaphysics Zeta, Aristotle examines the question "what is being." But as we will soon find out, the question of "what is being" will soon become "what is substance?" But this is a very difficult question. Aristotle will examine what substance is in a number of chapters, namely from chapter one to ten which is in fact the scope of this paper. Aristotle begins his examination into "what is being" by positing that, "We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways we distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things are spoken of." (1028a12) Aristotle is picking up where he last left off on his examination of being wherein he refers to his work in the Categories, where "what is" could be taken to be substance, quality, quantity, etc. But Aristotle seeks to refine his previous inquiry as he did in Categories by stating that "what is" isis what a thing is, which signifies its substance."(1028a13) Aristotle gives us an important notion to latch onto which is that "what is" is now taken to be substance. Further, that substance is the primary "what is" compared to the previously listed candidates for "what is" in Categoriesthing and the sitting thing and the healthy thing that is."(1028a24) Thus the predicate is not being, but it is rather the substance that is
So from all of this, you could say that throughout all this complex analysis of what it means to be and being, one may essentially be nothing as the primacy of substance is essentially a blank substrate with attributes attached to it. So look at your computer screen. You see the shape of the computer, probably rectangular, probably black, cords coming out the side of it, various images on the front of it. But what
really is
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