The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3) — Schopenhauer — John Shaqi
The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3)
Schopenhauer · en
Of Time. Of Space. Of Matter.
(1) There is only (1) There is only (1) There is only
_one_ Time, and all _one_ Space, and all _one_ Matter, and
different times are different spaces are all different
parts of it. parts of it. materials are
different states of
matter; as such it
is called
_Substance_.
(2) Different times (2) Different spaces (2) Different
are not simultaneous are not successive matters (materials)
but successive. but simultaneous. are not so through
substance but
through accidents.
(3) Time cannot be (3) Space cannot be (3) Annihilation of
thought away, but thought away, but matter is
everything can be everything can be inconceivable, but
thought away from thought away from annihilation of all
it. it. its forms and
qualities is
conceivable.
(4) Time has three (4) Space has three (4) Matter exists,
divisions, the past, dimensions—height, _i.e._, acts in all
the present, and the breadth, and length. the dimensions of
future, which space and throughout
constitute two the whole length of
directions and a time, and thus these
centre of two are united and
indifference. thereby filled. In
this consists the
true nature of
matter; thus it is
through and through
causality.
(5) Time is (5) Space is (5) Matter is
infinitely infinitely infinitely
divisible. divisible. divisible.
(6) Time is (6) Space is (6) Matter is
homogeneous and a homogeneous and a homogeneous and a
_Continuum_, _i.e._, _Continuum_, _i.e._, _Continuum_, _i.e._,
no one of its parts no one of its parts it does not consist
is different from is different from of originally
the rest, nor the rest, nor different
separated from it by separated from it by (_homoiomeria_) or
anything that is not anything that is not originally separated
time. space. parts (atoms); it is
therefore not