Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Hossein Zohdi Sehat ¹
• Seyed Masoud Seyf ²
• Ali Naghi Baghershahi ²

¹ PhD. in Contemporary Philosophy, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

Abstract

In his reading of Spinoza, Deleuze encounters the key concept of "expression" and finds it as a folding, a repeated unfolding. Still, to fully understand this concept, he needs Bergson's philosophy of time. In the philosophical structure of Deleuze-Bergson, the past-present, virtual-actual dualities are co-existence and twin; both are real but with "different" realities that become in a constant, continuous, aimless, and completely random flow. Meanwhile, the virtual is a special reality that is always present but not an active reality; the virtuality of reality is related to the past, in that the past is real in the sense of being virtual. The virtual is not the image of the actual, it is not the image of anything at all, and it is not like the image; it is not even the actual minus the feature of actuality; the virtual is neither the spirit of the actual nor a kind of transcendence above it; it is only a part of reality; Just as actuality is a part of reality, no more, no less; but the virtual is real in the same way that actuality is real.

Keywords

• virtual
• actual
• time
• Bergson
• Deleuze

Main Subjects

• Western Philosophy