Filozofija vremena Abrahama J. Heschela
Abraham J. Heschel's Philosophy of Time

Summary/Abstract: The article presents Heschel's philosophy of time, strongly influenced by Jewish religion. Heschel is convinced thjat the main problems of contemporary civilisation are connected with predominance of space over time, i.e. with human endeavour to rule the space, along with neglect of time. According to this, Heschel stresses that predominance of space means predominance of things, reduction of existence to possesion, closing of the world into imanence. In contrast, predominance of time brings predominance of Being over having, and means disclosure of the world towards eternity and transcendence. According to this, time is of much more importance for existence than space is. Finally, doesn't the originality of existence reflects the originality of time which is condensed into a moment? Heschel also stresses that we cannot look at the world exclusively sub specie temporis, i.e. we also need to take into consideration category of space. In that sense, he tries to develop such a philosophy of time where space can find certain meaning. But possiblity of such a harmonization is questionable, if we have in mind that Heschel almost exclusively connects the meaning of human existence with the category of time. It seems at least problematic also his attitude that, to contemporary human, time is bigger problem than space. Wouldn' it be better to say that two of them are of same difficulty and importance?

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