Herméneutique aristotélicienne du devenir de l’être : défis et enjeux de la société africaine émergente

The question of the future of being is a fundamental concern of metaphysics in particular and therefore of philosophy in general. Indeed, this question was not resolved by Aristotle's predecessors despite numerous attempts at answers, because the notion of becoming will have been substantially poorly defined by them. In Heraclitus, for example, the notion of becoming was radicalized to the point of denying any existence to being. Contradictorily, Heraclitean becoming/non-being was rather rejected by Parmenides by the recognition of the sole existence of being. It is therefore Plato who will attempt to establish conciliation between the two philosophical systems in his theory of Ideas, by establishing the participation of things (ideas) in their paradigms (Ideas). However, this Platonic attempt, although daring, will prove ineffective and therefore meaningless in the face of Aristotelianism. In reality, Aristotle thinks that through participation, if the Ideas are mixed, they undoubtedly lose their individuality and would prove confused to the point of being unable to distinguish which would be the essence of man of the one which would not be. In other words, to determine which would be the cause of the future of man. Thus, we thought that the question of the becoming of being therefore experienced a decisive turning point with Aristotle, because not only did he reappropriate the question of becoming by referring it to being, but also succeeded in establishing beyond any previously existing distance between being and becoming, that it is even being which is in becoming.