Thursday, November 4, 2021

Time Under Spinoza's Attributes

Within Spinoza's broad architecture of reality or being, he articulates that as humans we understand reality through two attributes - extending and thinking - or as I like to think of it - objective and subjective. His discussions on time are limited, but it does seem relevant that Einstein's physics revolution could be related to Spinoza's two attributes. Time could be considered objective where space-time distortion is non-existent versus subjective where space-time distortions are significant. This example also allows for the expanded sense of the attribute of thinking or subjectivity - it is not of the imagination but is real within its attribute.

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