The paper on which this video and its predecessors are based can be downloaded through the PhilPapers link provided in the description of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoZ19AjxEqo
The work began in 2018 and was completed in the summer of 2026. It is organized into three major parts:
The pre-classical period, examining Aristotle's conception of time and change, Augustine's reflections on time and consciousness, and Ibn 'Arabi's metaphysics of continual creation and manifestation.
The classical period, devoted to the great debate between Newton's absolute space and time, Leibniz's relational conception, and Kant's transcendental idealism.
The post-classical period, exploring Nietzschean perspectivism, phenomenology, existentialism, Jungian psychology, and the transformations introduced by Einstein's relativity and Bohr's quantum mechanics.
The paper concludes with two original philosophical proposals: an Einsteinian substance–relation duality and a Bohr–Kantian spacetime–quantum-measurement duality, both pointing toward deeper questions concerning the nature of reality, appearance, and becoming.
This will be the final English video in the series, as the subject has unfortunately not attracted sufficient interest to justify continuing it in its present form.
A final video in Arabic, offering a synthesis of the entire discussion, will appear next week on my first YouTube channel, Badis Ydri | ARCHIVE.
If I have another opportunity to explore material from the paper in greater detail, I would particularly like to return to the two original syntheses and to Sartre's theory of temporality and being-for-itself. I found Sartre's analysis unexpectedly subtle and profoundly nontrivial—far more so than I had anticipated before studying it closely.
