In philosophy, involution occurs when a process or object is ontologically "turned in" upon itself.
Involuted values
In meta-ethics, involution of values is the extension of an otherwise convenient and decent system of values to its inevitable logical conclusion, with an indecent or inconvenient result.
See also
- Henri Bergson
- Gilles Deleuze
- Involutory functions, which come up in philosophical logic (especially nonclassical logic)
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