АБСОЛЮТНОЕ И ОТНОСИТЕЛЬНОЕ

The Absolute and the Relative

As a philosophical category, the Absolute is unconditional, independent, irrelative, complete in itself, and immutable; the Relative describes a phenomenon in its relations and connections with other phenomena and its dependence on them. On the whole, matter in motion is not conditioned or limited by anything; it is eternal and inexhaustible, that is, absolute. The infinite number of kinds of matter, the concrete forms of its motion that are constantly replacing each other, are temporary, finite, transitory, relative.

Every thing is relative but is a part of a whole and in that sense contains within itself an element of the absolute; that which is relative in one connection is absolute in another. From this it follows that the difference between the relative and the absolute is also relative.