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Yesugi
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Yesugi asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Philosophy: Is there a possibility of "creating destruction?"?

Is there something antithetical to the expression "creating destruction," or is there some validity to the concept?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    If you mean this in general terms then "creating destruction" is a paradoxical expression.

    You cannot destroy sth before that something is created. So if you go and destroy a tree or a building then what you have done is that you have "destroyed" the tree or the building.

    I don't think its correct to say that you have "created destruction" for the tree or building.

  • 1 decade ago

    With everything destroyed something is created...

    Whether it be a void that is quickly filled by another unrelated force or conditions for a latent movement to grow or...

    Simply put, the act of destruction always creates, whether or not one can predict what is created is where the difficulty enters the equation.

  • 1 decade ago

    the concept means making destruction possible. ms Rice said the bush administration aimed at bringing to the middle east creative destruction. to her, this means destroying everything to build a new middle east that suits the imagination of the administration. i understood it as an apocalypse in whch everything is destroyed and a new middle east comes out of the destruction as the phoenix that dies, burns and out of the ashes it is reborn.

    an antethesis would be to stop /halt destruction. this is like the mission of the nato or joined forces in a hot spot in the world. they are expected to stop any party from destrying the other.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't think we can create destruction it has always been. Humans often seem to seek out new forms of destruction but just as we cannot create life, because life has always been, we cannot create destruction.

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  • 1 decade ago

    creating a bomb for the pupose of destruction is creating destruction.

  • 1 decade ago

    yeah in the same sense someone can create time.

    it's just a concept.

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