The finite will always negate itself, time and time again it will negate itself. This is because the finite is not real. The only way it can get to seem real is if we look at it in a blinkered...
The essential difference between ‘consciousness’ and ‘thought’ is that the former doesn't work on the basis of comparison-making, whilst the latter does. It may not seem to tell us very much about consciousness to say that the key thing about...
We tend to think that 'not existing' is (or would be) an extraordinarily bad thing and be very averse to the prospect on this account but this is only because of our limited way of seeing things! Actually, not existing...