Gnostic time: an exercise in topological semantics (part III)

Abstract

Philosophy cannot be understood as a mere rhapsody of opinions, or ad hoc comments, or solemn rhetoric... however original or ingenious they may be. Philosophical concepts —just like the terms of science or of ordinary language itself— are linked, they form a system and only when a territory of concepts and ideas has been controlled to a greater or lesser extent, is it possible to confront that thought with others. Sometimes it is even the very criterion of «systematization» that is the key to a philosophy. Because a philosophy can not only be exercised in fact as a system, but can appeal to a certain coherence and completeness, representing itself as such a system. One of the most interesting philosophical systems in the Spanish philosophical panorama is that of Eugenio Trías, whose work, The Age of the Spirit, articulates the relationship between Time and Knowledge.