Inconsistenza fondativa dell'eraclitismo naturalistico

This work aims to show the groundlessness of the Heraclitean conceptions subtended to contemporary naturalism starting from the same scientific knowledge. It clarifies how the description of the physical world remains entrusted to mathematical theories even in the changed perspectives, with all the limits that such theories entail. The work considers the issues of becoming emerging from modern experimental findings and critically analyzes their relationship with the principle of causality and with the different deterministic conceptions. It also correlates and leads the concept of becoming to the ideas of diversity, change, multiplicity. The conclusive arguments show that science is neither able to characterize the becoming by explaining its apparent contradiction, nor to deny the principle of the primacy of the act. They also prove that the hypothesis of a spontaneous becoming is sustainable only if it is not original. Finally, they highlight the absence of a sufficient reason in modern Heracliteanism, not so much for a fixed variety of forms, as for their changing succession.