Max Scheler points to the dynamic and living quality of time, compared with the adynamic and comparatively inanimate quality of space. ‘Life’, he wrote, is an event or a process. It can only be defined functionally and dynamically. No structural definition is sufficient and there is no way one can grasp its meaning by invoking some spatial arrangement of its parts … Life is a sort of being, which can only be properly got to grips with by emphasising its coming-to-be … A spatial arrangement is a pre-requisite of the inorganic. Within living creatures events are not arranged along any spatial
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