THINKING DESCARTES IN CONJUNCTION, WITH MERLEAU-PONTY: THE HUMAN BODY, THE FUTURE, AND HISTORICITY

• Authors: Griffith James
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article addresses a debate in Descartes scholarship over the mind-dependence or -independence of time by turning to Merleau-Ponty’s Nature and The Visible and the Invisible. In doing so, it shows that both sides of the debate ignore that time for Descartes is a measure of duration in general. The consequences to remembering what time is are that the future is shown to be the invisible of an intertwining of past and future, and that historicity is the invisible of God.

Keywords

EN

DESCARTES RENÉ; MERLEAU-PONTY MAURICE; HUMAN BODY; FUTURE; HISTORICITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 111 – 125

Contributors

author

Griffith James

• Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2019.74.2.3