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

Griffith J. E. C.

FILOZOFIA, cilt.74, sa.2, ss.111-125, 2019 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 74 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.31577/filozofia.2019.74.2.3
  • Dergi Adı: FILOZOFIA
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.111-125
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Rene Descartes, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Human body, Future, Historicity
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

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.