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Authors: PAUL MERCIER.
DOI: 10.24193/subbphil.2019.spiss.03
Published Online: 2019-11-30
Published Print: 2019-11-30
pp. 39-60
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The Conscience of Time in Spinoza and Boutang. Boutang’s Objection to Spinoza in the Resolution of the Ontologie du secret. This article aims to compare the relation to time and eternity in Spinoza and Boutang. Why such an attempt? Boutang, in footnote nr. 442 of the last chapter of his book Ontologie du secret, objects to Spinoza, who rejects all ontological content of the future and therefore condemns substance to be an “eternal past”. On the contrary, Boutang seeks an ontological participation via a subjective imitation of the Trinitarian person, who would act in the modal reality. This requires a change in the “consciousness of time” by understanding Time not as a thing, but as something related to Creation itself, in order to finally confer an ontological content to the future as a project. As a result, both conceptions are in opposition to the status of the substance and God to find the effective participation (called the “third kind of knowledge” in Spinoza). Nevertheless, they can get closer regarding the search of a subject’s metamorphosis in the very duration via a specific participation to eternity which Boutang calls “other time”, and more metaphorically “oblique corridor”. Consequently, this “consciousness of an other time” fills an important gap that remains in the proposition 23, V of the Ethic, which divides consciousness between understanding and imagination at the expense of conscience itself.
Keywords: Spinoza, Boutang, time, eternity, oblique, desire.
