Philosophers since Descartes have questioned whether our experience reflects a reality outside of our minds. In this instalment of our idealism series, in partnership with the Essentia Foundation, Paul Franks argues that the basic insight of Kant’s approach - perspectivism - harmonizes far better with our ordinary experience of the world, and with Einstein’s relativistic physics, than Berkeley’s immaterialist view.
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Asher Klatchko 24 March 2024
״Taking a perspective,“ is not only with respect to time but also to light. As time dilates light stretches. We perceive light as real, shouldn’t we therefore perceive time as such too? In short, space time is actually a “real” entity, as real as a desk placed in it. It warps around masses, it bends light, it dilates time, it expands… it may has even started in a single event.
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