Die Kontingenz der Ewigkeit? Paradoxe der Sprache der Beschreibung der Dauer in antiken Modellen der Zeitlichkeit

Платоновские исследования. 2020. Vol. 12. No. 1. P. 159–173.

Tatiana Litvin

The article undertakes a phenomenological interpretation of the description of contingency in two late-antique models of the relationship of time and eternity - in the theory of Plotinus and in the eschatology of Paul on the basis of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. Contingency as a possible property of not time, namely, eternity, the presence of the supertemporal in the physical world - this hypothesis promotes a new view to the relationship between time and eternity and a new view to the properties of time. Time remains as immeasurable as eternity, inheriting its character as a phenomenon of consciousness. The article also compares the ideas of A. Bergson and E. Husserl on duration and memory, on the coincidence of moments and the measurability of the movement of time. It seems relevant to turn to Ptolemaic cosmology, proposed by Q. Meillassoux, an appeal to ancient mathematics and ontology through the optics of post-metaphysical criticism. The search for a new correlationism is significant for the philosophy of the time, and contingency, like any coincidence of thought and object, the world and the subject, the signifier and the signified, leads to new forms of manifestation, new phenomena of presence, to a new fullness of being in history.

Keywords: ancient philosophy, античная философия