Considerations on inertia, causality and temporality in Descartes

Abstract

In this paper we tried to examine the grounds of the cartesian thesis of the continued creation as well as the conception of time that it implies. On the one hand the necessity to take time as metaphysically discrete and as physically continuous from the analysis of the connections between inertia, causality and temporality were examined. On the other hand, we sought to explain the possibility of such a conception by analyzing the main Cartesian theses about time.