How could something arise out of its opposite?

Answer 1

First we must decide if it is actually the opposite. Like love and hate. They are not actually opposite.

For each action, there is an opposite,yet equal reaction. One did not arise from the other. They were both already present.

Answer 2

Personally, I think it could, because for there to be an opposite, they must be a pair. If one does not exist, then the other will not exist either, for it will have no counterbalance. Sort of like good and evil - though we don't really know where to draw the line. As they say: "By doing a little evil, one can do a lot of good." Of course, that isn't to say you should go ahead and do evil every day, but if you can fix something by bending the rules slightly, why not?
Also, a good example of the answer to your question is light and dark. If we did not have the dark, we would not appreciate the light, and vice versa.

Answer 3

Absolutely. Love can arise from hate. Greed can arise from lack. Illness can arise from health. Because no state is entirely static. There is always evolution and revolution. Life is a state of constant change and the only thing constant is change. So round and round we go. An everchanging world to keep us ever amused and challenged. The world is continually renewing, adjusting, altering, accomodating, fine-tuning itself. So, yes, we are always in flux from one state to the other. A bad experience can change a good outlook to a worse one for awhile, until insight steps in, and so we can turn the bad into the good once again and so on and so on......

Answer 4

Well, that's a loaded question if I ever read one! I think many things arise out of their opposites because it's just the natural way of things. Satan was an angel who fell from Grace, Adam and Eve were sinless until they sinned, the Phoenix rose from the ashes....it's just the way the world works, and I also think that things come full circle, for the most part. We will return to God and the Phoenix returned to the sky; Satan of course is another story altogether.... ;)

Answer 5

As a reaction.
"...like a drunk on a horse. Having fallen off once upon the left he take great pains and, as a result, the next time he falls off upon the right."
Attributed to Martin Luther as a comment about the church.

Fear of of a communist takeover in Germany post WW1 pushed many moderates into the arms of the forming fascist National Socialists. (Similarly with 1930's Spain)

Fear of the apparent or actual chaos of a democratic government has triggered innumerable authoritarian takeovers.

In debate and argument this is a classic method of "dialectic" where one proposition generates it's opposite or a counter-proposition, which can then be compared or considered by variety of methods.

"Hegel's dialectic, which he usually presented in a threefold manner, was vulgarized by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis. Hegel rarely used these terms himself"

Answer 6

out of intense love for your child, can arise intense hate for those who try to harm them,,,,,
out of terrible childhood conditions a child suffers can come a fantastic , caring individual and a great parent
if that is what you meant,,,,,

Answer 7

I've seen hate turn to love many times over the years

Answer 8

People often change their feelings on things.For example,sometimes beauty can come out of an angry person ,who is passionate about something that matters to you.

Answer 9

ask the 5 spirit emperors, or perhaps the 3 pure ones. review esoteric taoist thought for some revealing insights. what "rules" in the 3rd dimension, a very "low" one, for sure, has no relevance, whatever, in the myriad "higher" ones. that's why we humans are living a dream. what appears to us to be irrefutable fact is so far from true reality as to be a joke. can you spell "delusion"? ;-)

Answer 10

Shadows would not exist if not for the light.