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The aztec philosopher where monists, they believed that reality was a single animated, sacred energy called "teotl". The aztec gods where a collection of physical processes and energies, part of teotl, like in hinduism with brahman. The major difference between Aztec philosophy and european is that the Aztecs thought that reality was fundamentaly a process, Aristotle looked at the world from a perspective of forms, while the Aztecs think of the world as a process. The concept of dialectical monism is that all things have a complimentary quality, that they struggle against. Every thing is ultimately an unambiougs struggle between different things, in a dialectic. Becuase everything is a process, becuase it's teotl, and then you need to analys it as a dialectic between opposites going back and forth. They then believe that there is not inherent teleology in history and that reality is fundamentaly a struggle between different forces.

For example, life and nonlife are basically chemical processes, they are in a conflict between eachother, and are the same thing, yet opposites. Same thing with being, and non being. As reality is a struggle between being and nonbeing, then the fundamental part of reality is becoming, meaning that the proper way to analys the world is as becoming.