Metaphysics
Is reality fundamentally stable, changing, processual, or both?
Reality is flux ordered by logos; conflict and change are not defects but basic features of the world.
True being must be stable and unchanging, while change poses deep logical difficulties.
Change is intelligible through potency, actuality, form, matter, and teleological explanation.
Impermanence is universal; things arise dependently and lack independent essence.
Events and becoming are more basic than static substances.
The contrast between change and being is one of philosophy’s oldest engines. It drives the Presocratic split between Heraclitus and Parmenides, shapes Plato and Aristotle, and returns in Buddhist and process traditions.
The problem asks whether stability explains change, change dissolves stability, or both are abstractions from a deeper pattern.