Of time, being, and (not)Heidegger
Last night, someone dared me to name onephilosopher that wrote about being and time before Heidegger. It was, actually, a pretty easy question. I’m currently doing a seminar on Leibniz and we often talked about that exact subject. Time and being was, in fact, a pretty popular subject during the modern era.
Leibniz postulates a world composed of monads (even God is a monad). Time does not exist for Leibniz, it is a cognitive illusion produced when we consider the succession of phenomena. Same thing for space: it does a concept produced by analysing how objects are related to one another. So: relative time and space. A very interesting theory that’s opposed to the Newtonian model… just like Einstein’s, that uses relative time-space as well.
Leibniz pulled off a fascinating, coherent, brilliant and productive theory of being and time. On the other corner of the ring, mister H’s Time and Being is surely interesting, but, heck, it’s still po-mo rant.
Tags: Einstein, Heidegger, in english, Leibniz, time and space
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