Only with the help of the term "person" can we demonstrate the dignity, uniqueness and
unrepeatability of the individual, something clear in the theological tradition:
It precisely keeps one from appreciating the haecceity, individuality, and
unrepeatability of each specific experience.
CAN A HISTORICAL EXHIBITION of Arte Povera, which necessarily reframes as sculptures works that were once performative and ephemeral, provide something new to contemporary viewers and still honor the
unrepeatability of the first experiment?
Historical consciousness recognizes the particularity, individuality, and
unrepeatability of every event, a certain desacralization and deprovidentialization of history, discontinuity in history because freedom can reverse itself, the novelty of the present, the relativization of every understanding of the past because of the particularity of all standpoints: the changing past as history is always open to new reinterpretations into the future.
A person has a level of
unrepeatability and dignity that the classic Aristotelian position did not adequately emphasize." This insight leads Stein into an extended discussion of the principle of individuation.
On the one hand, mathesis universalis, common speech, invariability, semiosic fluxes, synechism, energy, progress, succession, return, transitive writing, transcription, continuity; on the other hand, mathesis singularis, uniqueness, otherness, fragmentation, death, loss, intransitive writing, variability,
unrepeatability, discontinuity.
(39) As Musso and Venturelli observe, "Il cinema ha offerto al divo della musica rock l'immagine in azione, che puo surrogare l'irrepetibilita del concerto dal vivo con la qualita del suono e dell'immagine ..." ("Cinema has offered to the rockstar image in action, which can replace the
unrepeatability of a live concert with the quality of sound and of image ...") (8).
This indicates
unrepeatability, to be sure, but more precisely in the sense that the person is unique in that he possesses his "act of being" from within, and because of this is capable of determining himself in contrast to non-personal beings whose "act of being" and activity is determined by their natures.
[49] Singularity is given in a space-time that in spite of uniqueness and
unrepeatability is part of relations not only of the synchronic order but also of the diachronic.
The theatre's essential
unrepeatability, compared to celluloid's unchangeability, worried the Communist Party, for it undermined control.
Keegan is aware of this when he writes of Hughes's "provisional view of what might be termed the
unrepeatability of the poem, and its supposed fixity in place" (viii), and he concludes that for Hughes, "Making new poems was akin to making new habitats for old poems" (xi).
Therefore, it is characterized by some
unrepeatability which we will come back to later.
He claims that spontaneous psi is characterised by strong personal involvement, high emotional levels, and
unrepeatability, whereas laboratory psi involves minimal emotion, occurs in relaxed settings, and with the participant in a positive mental state.
