Henry, Martin (2010) Change. Doctrine and Life, 60 (2). ISSN 0012-466X

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Abstract

One of the most obvious features of life is that it changes. It is not simply that people and things come and go, that they are transitory. It is, rather, that they don't remain the same even during their brief life-span. The celebrated German philosopher, Hegel, is frequently cited as the modern thinker who thematized the reality of change and made it the basis, indeed the substance, of a whole philosophical system. Closer to the Catholic world is the figure of John Henry Newman, who claimed uncontroversially that to live is to change, and that to live well is to have changed many times.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Change; Hegel; John Henry Newman; 'axial age'; Old Testament;
Academic Unit:	St Patrick's College, Maynooth > Faculty of Theology
Item ID:	2365
Depositing User:	Martin Henry
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2011 16:36
Journal or Publication Title:	Doctrine and Life
Publisher:	Dominican Publications
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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