The Philosophy of Space and Time

After Newton’s absolutism and Leibniz’s relationism, we turn to Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism, which transforms the philosophical problem of space and time.

Newton regarded space and time as existing independently of physical bodies and events. Leibniz understood them as relational orders among things. Kant challenges the assumptions underlying both approaches by asking a more fundamental question: How are space and time represented by the human mind, and what makes our experience of them possible?

We examine Kant’s distinction between intuition and concept, his metaphysical and transcendental expositions of space, the possibility of synthetic a priori geometry, and his central conclusion that space and time are pure a priori forms of sensible intuition.

For Kant, space and time are transcendentally ideal but empirically real: they are conditions of our experience, not properties of things as they exist in themselves.

Watch the complete three-part series:

Part 1 — Newton’s Absolutism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jxME9YstU8

Part 2 — Leibniz’s Relationism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUWXQNO2Lt8

Part 3 — Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoZ19AjxEqo

Based on The Philosophy of Space and Time: From Newton, Leibniz, and Kant to Einstein, Bohr, and Becoming, by Badis Ydri.

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