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The Correlation of the Temporality of the Soul and the World as a Solution to the Aporia of the Continuity of Time in Aristotle

The aims of the article are firstly, to consider the implications of Aristotelian aporetics of time for the conception of the relation of temporality of the soul and worldly time, secondly, provide and interpretation of time as continuous measure of possibility and actuality, and lastly, offer on the basis of that an explication of said relation. I first analyse the aporia of continuity of time in Aristotle and the commentators, and building on that, establishing an aporia of the relation of temporality of the soul and worldly time. If the soul is to measure a continuous worldly time, it has to preserve the moment in its identity, but also difference. That seems problematic in the regard that it has to remain identical through difference in this measuring, which would mean it needs a further measure of its continuity. The relation of the soul and worldly time then has to be understood in terms of a correlation of actuality and possibility. To be able to see this necessity of the correlation of the soul and time, one has to avoid in initially setting the problem on the simplified level of time as linear flow analogous to a line.

 


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Issue No. 291 - Erotic Art
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Časopis za kritiko znanosti
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2024 , volume volume 52 , issue issue 291
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