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Single Idea 24141

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time ]

Full Idea

Our derivation of the sense of time etc. still presupposes time as absolute.

Gist of Idea

Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 25[406])

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.105


A Reaction

'Etc.'? I suppose this is meant to pre-empt whatever Bergson might have been planning to say. The idea that time actually is subjective strikes as very wrong. Whether physicists can reduce time to something else is above my pay scale.