時間論にみる一つの問題点 : 時間と自然の数学化

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So far, I have reported five papers about time theory, in which I examined the definitions of philosophers, western and eastern, ancient and modern. But my point of consideration doesn't consists so much in the definitions themselves as in the fact that so many philosophers and scientists defined time in their own ways. In other words, time is possibly defined so variously from different points of view that one who examines time theory feels like regarding time as non-being. Then what should be asked about time ish't what it is but rather what it presupposes about the understanding of a human being, for it goes without saying that time is never considered independently of a human being. The subject of this paper is time theories of scientists, especially the arrow of time. Natural science just needs to measure their objects, which necessarily leads to the mathematisation of nature or the idealisation of nature. Edmund Husserl looks on it as the crisis of European reason. This paper aims at making it clear that the idealisation of nature is now getting out of control and that it means the new crisis different from what Husserl thinks as by examining the general lecture of S. Hawking "The arrow of time" at Kyoto University.
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