Article
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

Die Zeit in zweidimensionaler Betrachtung

  • EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: December 22, 2016

Abstract

B-time, i. e. the temporal scale of the B-series of events, is one and the same for all times, while A-times (the temporal scales of A-series) are as many as there are moments of time. This means that A-theorists will have to consider one-dimensional time two-dimensionally: as changing within itself at every moment. The two-dimensional view is here put to service for a meta-compatibilist theory of freedom, a theory, that is, which reconciles freedom, determinism and their first order incompatibility at the second order. Kant’s position is interpreted as meta-compatibilist as well, but as having the drawback of separating time and freedom. In order to appreciate the connection of time and freedom, one has to acknowledge that in free acts the future is determined further according to plan, while at the same time the past is (with nomological necessity) co-determined further in countless unclear and inscrutable ways. A free act thus consumes its own range of freedom by positing retroactively the sufficient causal antecedents for its taking place: It was free before it occurred and is part of nature after.

Literatur

Falk, H.-P. (2010), Wahrheit und Subjektivität, Freiburg u. München.10.5771/9783495997277Search in Google Scholar

Hegel, G. W. F. (1830), Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse, Berlin, 3. Aufl.Search in Google Scholar

Kant, I. (1787), Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Riga, 2. Aufl.Search in Google Scholar

Kant, I. (1907–1914), Die Metaphysik der Sitten, in: Kants gesammelte Schriften 6, hg. v. d. Königl. Preuß. Akad. d. Wiss., Berlin, 203–494.Search in Google Scholar

Koch, A. F. (2016), Hermeneutischer Realismus, Tübingen.10.1628/978-3-16-154433-0Search in Google Scholar

Leibniz, G. W. (1968), Die Theodizee, übers. v. Buchenau, A., Hamburg, 2. Aufl.Search in Google Scholar

Mellor, D. H. (1998), Real Time II, London.10.4324/9780203302675Search in Google Scholar

McTaggart, J. M. E. (1993), The Unreality of Time, in: Le Poidevin, R., u. MacBeath, M. (Hg.), The Philosophy of Time, Oxford, 23–34.Search in Google Scholar

Published Online: 2016-12-22
Published in Print: 2016-12-1

© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Downloaded on 10.4.2026 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/dzph-2016-0066/html
Scroll to top button