Stefan Gerlach

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Simon Noriega-Olmos: ›Not-Being‹, ›Nothing‹, and Contradiction in Plato’s Sophist 236D-239C
At 236D-239C, Sophist presents three arguments to the conclusions, that the expression ›not-being‹ does not say or expr [...]

Mit dem von Nadja Germann und Frieder Vogelmann kuratierten Schwerpunkt »Wissen über Grenzen« versammelt das Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte theoretisch-methodologische Reflexionen und materiale [...]

As a result of the problem how revelation could be understood as an eternal event, Schelling developed a new theory of a double eternity. Drawing on said theory, he was also able to solve the problem how time itself could begin. The aim of this article is to reconstruct Schelling’s way of developing this theory in comparison with the state of theory of eternity of its time. It shows that Schelling’s investigation also included a new view on the state of tense (past, present and future) which Schelling took as an important part of each time philosophy.

From 1811 onward, Schelling develops a philosophy of time centered on the idea of a ›system of times‹. This paper reconstructs the motivation for this concept in Schelling’s critical engagement with Kant and interprets it as an ›organism of times‹ integrating metaphysical, cosmological, historical, and individual dimensions. In doing so, it elucidates how Schelling reconfigures the notion of system in order to account for the internal differentiation and dynamic unity of temporal structures.