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He has apparently re-discovered Kant's original claim that time is a creation of our own minds If by "original" you mean, in response to Hume's earlier stateme

• crazydiamond 16y ago
  Not to mention the eastern sources, namely Buddhism and Hinduism that have said so thousands of years ago.
  • balding_n_tired 16y ago
    Indeed Schopenhauer quotes them...
    • crazydiamond 16y ago
      iirc, Eckhart Tolle breaks time into clock time and psychological time. Perhaps, he does this to make it easy for audiences. But basically he does not debunk time. Psychological time is a mind created state which allows for the existence of a personal story. When one stays in the present moment, one breaks out of psy time, but clock time still exists. I hope i have not misquoted him.
  • jjs 16y ago
    I allude to that elsewhere in this thread. :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317736 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317736
• korch 16y ago
  I'm a philo nut. I've read Hume's Treatise, as it of course is well documented in Kant's into to Critique of Pure Reason, that Kant started his whole journey into creating his system of Transcendental Philosophy because of Hume's deep questioning of the reality of causality. Sure Ancient Hindu and Buddhist mystics had said this about time using the language of religion, but it was only a century after Kant's era that the holy texts of those religions were translated for Europeans. Before then few Westerners would have even heard of Buddhism. Schopenhauer was one of the first Western philosophers to have read the Upanishads and other Eastern religious texts, and then to also work Eastern ideas into the historical backdrop of Western philosophy.
  • jjs 16y ago
    Sure Ancient Hindu and Buddhist mystics had said this about time using the language of religion Bear in mind that in the ancient world, there wasn't necessarily a sharp distinction between "philosophy" and "religion". There is evidence that the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the "Brahmanas" (Hindus) and "śramanas" (Buddhists) to be simply different schools of philosophers. From wikipedia: In the 2nd century CE, the Christian dogmatist, Clement of Alexandria recognized Bactrian Buddhists (śramanas) and Indian gymnosophists for their influence on Greek thought: "Thus philosophy, a thing of the highest utility, flourished in antiquity among the barbarians, shedding its light over the nations. And afterwards it came to Greece. First in its ranks were the prophets of the Egyptians; and the Chaldeans among the Assyrians; and the Druids among the Gauls; and the śramanas among the Bactrians ("Σαρμαναίοι Βάκτρων"); and the philosophers of the Celts; and the Magi of the Persians, who foretold the Saviour's birth, and came into the land of Judea guided by a star. The Indian gymnosophists are also in the number, and the other barbarian philosophers. And of these there are two classes, some of them called śramanas ("Σαρμάναι"), and others Brahmins ("Βραφμαναι")." Clement of Alexandria "The Stromata, or Miscellanies" Book I, Chapter XV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Hellenistic_world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Hellenistic...) Before then few Westerners would have even heard of Buddhism. To the contrary, see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Expansion_of_Buddhism_to_the_West http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Expansion_o... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Greco-Buddhist_interaction_.282nd_century_BCE.E2.80.931st_century_CE.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Greco-Buddh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greeks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greeks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_the_Roman_world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_the_Roman_world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_trade_with_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_trade_with_India