Hardness of Reality, Duration of Ontology

Abstract

Reality is hard, they say. It is not a matter of "pessimistic view of the world", as one might think at first glance. Rather, it is the simple - almost obvious - observation that our encounter with reality is always also a "clash", an impact with something that precedes and resists us. Metaphorically, a clash with something that doesn't care about our existence. It may be a traumatic or joyful impact, but it is still an impact. Now, ontology has precisely the task of describing the real, what is there, without re (con) lasting the hardness of the real to elements extraneous to it.