Space and Time in Ouspensky’s Viewpoint (based on ideas of Tertium Organum)

Abstract

Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, in line with continuing and deepening Kant’s view on time and place, while accepting the mental and illusive nature of time and place and incomplete understanding of human beings about the entirety of place, considers the feeling of time as a result of limitations of the human mind for perceiving the ‘Fourth Dimension’. On the basis of this, time would be the barrier of place feeling in a creature with certain psychological and physiological structures. Parallel with the expansion of the creatures’ cognitive insight and awareness, the characteristics and dimensions of their place, as well as their understanding of temporal phenomena, change. From this point of view, movement and matter, as logical concepts, are nothing but projections of the passive and active states of our minds in the framework of the three-dimensional world. This innovative and worth-contemplating viewpoint, while being congruent with some of our intuitive and deductive concepts, gets entangled in a type of ontological vicious circle in defining the barriers of place since it does not present any irrefutable reason for the end of the place dimension in certain barriers.

Keywords

• Time
• Place
• Movement
• fourth dimension