Single Idea 22894

[catalogued under 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 5. God and Time]

Full Idea

Leibniz argues that if time is a thing in itself, and God is 'in' time, then God would be dependent for His existence on the existence of time.

Gist of Idea

If time were absolute that would make God's existence dependent on it

Source

report of Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716]) by Adrian Bardon - Brief History of the Philosophy of Time 3 'Newton'

Book Reference

Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.57


A Reaction

Hence Leibniz says time is merely relations between events. Not sure what he thinks an event is. What is God made of? Is there some divine matter upon which God's existence must depend?