Reality is a Becoming (The Metaphysics of Being Human)

Reality is a process of becoming.

Humanity can only be real if it is allowed to participate in the process of becoming.

Humanity can only be perceived as real when it is seen to be participating in a process of becoming.

For a process of becoming to take place there has to be an idea of that which will be at the end of the process, and this is true whether or not the process of becoming is expected to ever reach that end.

This ideal at the end of the process is the purpose of the process.

The human process of becoming, therefore, is a purposive process.

Through the purposive process, humanity gives meaning – through purpose – to reality.

Like humanity, an individual can only be seen to be real if he or she is allowed to participate in the process of becoming, which is the human, purposive process of becoming.

Likewise, societies, which are conglomerates of individuals, are only real if they can provide the means by which all of its members are made capable of participating in the process of becoming.

The concept of ‘the process of becoming’ contains the idea of continuation. It is a continual process until the ideal at the end of the process is reached.

For the process of becoming to be real it must, therefore, also take into consideration the need to maintain the continuation of the process. Anything that threatens to break the continuation of the process or paralyses it should be considered negative, erroneous and bad.

For any process to be considered a human process, it must encompass all of humanity.

A just process of becoming for humanity will be one that makes humanity possible and necessary.

Humanity cannot be measured against itself or its parts, and this means that human possibility and necessity have to be in relation to humanity-in-the-world and, subsequently, to the Universe.

For humanity to begin a process of becoming in the world it needs to understand that the perpetuation of the world as a home is a crucial element behind the planning and process of any becoming.