Time and Permanence from DescartesPoint of View

Descartes believed that apart from the mind there is nothing except matter and motion. Qualities of objects are all things that our mind adds to the objects and the time is one of these qualities andDescartes has claimed that it is nothing except a condition of our thought. If we divide the views of philosophers about the time into realistic and non-realistic, Descartes will be one of those whose view about time is non-realistic and he considers it as a condition of our thought. The objects have permanence and it is understood by the comparison of them with each other, and this comparison makes a condition of thought to which Descartes gives the name "time". There are two subjective and objective views toward time from the beginning of the historyof philosophy. Aristotletook the time into account as the counting of the motionand a manner of the understanding of the motion. His great teacher, Plato, took it into consideration as an objective fact which is current from the beginning. In this matter Descartes, unlike his general thought which is against Aristotle, is inclined toward him. On one hand, like many philosophers, he believes time as a subjective matter, and on the other hand, he explains it according to his own views. In this article by an investigation into time from the point of view of the philosophers before and after Descartes we will explain his views.