The largest Russian philosopher, specialist in the history of philosophy and the history of science Piama Pavlovna Gaidenko, wrote a book about the key concept of philosophy, history, science and human life in general — about time.
Hundreds of pages of this monograph are devoted to the concepts of time in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in modern times and in the XNUMXth century. We can learn in detail how Newton and Leibniz, Kant, Fichte and Schelling, Einstein, Husserl, Heidegger and other philosophers solved the problem of the duration of being. Speaking about today, Gaidenko notes that today the understanding of the connection between time and eternity has been largely violated: modern man replaces eternity with the future, and “the spiritual crisis of our era stems … from our loss of the true present,” which alone can reveal eternity to us. On the very last pages, she presents the views of the French philosopher Jean Lacroix, who sought, with the help of existential experience, to comprehend the connection between the states of the human soul with time and eternity: “Pleasure is always connected with time. All joy … arises from some relationship between time and eternity. Happiness is associated with eternity. Therefore, man was created for joy, and although he often has enough pleasure, he does not cease to hope for happiness. It’s worth thinking about.
Progress Tradition, 464 p.